| Message ID | 20230117112249.244096-1-david@redhat.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Series | virtio-mem: Handle preallocation with migration | expand |
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:22:41PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, > I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected > for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient > huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS > instead of failing gracefully. > > In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem > preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, > when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but > "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any > RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before > migrating any RAM. > > Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that prealloc+postcopy is > shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary > prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and > cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy > actually tries placing pages. > > Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> > Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> > Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> For patch 1-5: Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
On 17.01.23 12:22, David Hildenbrand wrote: > While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, > I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected > for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient > huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS > instead of failing gracefully. > > In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem > preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, > when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but > "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any > RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before > migrating any RAM. > > Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that prealloc+postcopy is > shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary > prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and > cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy > actually tries placing pages. > > Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> > Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> > Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> @Juan, David: I can similarly take this via my tree as well.
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote: > On 17.01.23 12:22, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, >> I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected >> for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient >> huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS >> instead of failing gracefully. >> In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem >> preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, >> when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but >> "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any >> RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before >> migrating any RAM. >> Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that >> prealloc+postcopy is >> shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary >> prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and >> cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy >> actually tries placing pages. >> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> >> Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> >> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> >> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> >> Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> > > @Juan, David: I can similarly take this via my tree as well. Reviewing it. I can get it through migration tree, thanks. Later, Juan.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:22:41PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, > I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected > for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient > huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS > instead of failing gracefully. > > In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem > preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, > when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but > "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any > RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before > migrating any RAM. > > Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that prealloc+postcopy is > shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary > prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and > cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy > actually tries placing pages. > > Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> > Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> > Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > v4 -> v5: > - "migration/savevm: Move more savevm handling into vmstate_save()" > -- Extended patch description regarding tracing > - "migration/savevm: Prepare vmdesc json writer in > qemu_savevm_state_setup()" > -- Move freeing to migrate_fd_cleanup() > - "migration/savevm: Allow immutable device state to be migrated early (i.e., > before RAM)" > -- "immutable" -> "early_setup" > -- Extend comment > - Added some RBs (thanks!) > > v3 -> v4: > - First 3 patches: > -- Minimze code changes and simplify > -- Save immutable device state during qemu_savevm_state_setup() > -- Don't use vmsd priorities, use a new flag > -- Split it logically up > - "migration/ram: Factor out check for advised postcopy" > -- Don't factor out postcopy_is_running() > - "virtio-mem: Migrate immutable properties early" > -- Adjust to changed vmsd interface > - "virtio-mem: Proper support for preallocation with migration" > -- Drop sanity check in virtio_mem_post_load_early() > > v2 -> v3: > - New approach/rewrite, drop RB and TB of last patch > > v1 -> v2: > - Added RBs and Tested-bys > - "virtio-mem: Fail if a memory backend with "prealloc=on" is specified" > -- Fail instead of warn > -- Adjust subject/description > > > David Hildenbrand (8): > migration/savevm: Move more savevm handling into vmstate_save() > migration/savevm: Prepare vmdesc json writer in > qemu_savevm_state_setup() > migration/savevm: Allow immutable device state to be migrated early > (i.e., before RAM) > migration/vmstate: Introduce VMSTATE_WITH_TMP_TEST() and > VMSTATE_BITMAP_TEST() > migration/ram: Factor out check for advised postcopy > virtio-mem: Fail if a memory backend with "prealloc=on" is specified > virtio-mem: Migrate immutable properties early > virtio-mem: Proper support for preallocation with migration > > hw/core/machine.c | 4 +- > hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.h | 8 ++ > include/migration/misc.h | 4 +- > include/migration/vmstate.h | 28 ++++++- > migration/migration.c | 9 +++ > migration/migration.h | 4 + > migration/ram.c | 8 +- > migration/savevm.c | 105 +++++++++++++----------- > 9 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.39.0
On 02.02.23 12:04, Juan Quintela wrote: > David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 17.01.23 12:22, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>> While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, >>> I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected >>> for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient >>> huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS >>> instead of failing gracefully. >>> In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem >>> preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, >>> when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but >>> "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any >>> RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before >>> migrating any RAM. >>> Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that >>> prealloc+postcopy is >>> shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary >>> prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and >>> cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy >>> actually tries placing pages. >>> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> >>> Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> >>> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> >>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> >>> Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> >> >> @Juan, David: I can similarly take this via my tree as well. > > Reviewing it. > > I can get it through migration tree, thanks. > > Later, Juan. Thanks Juan and Michael!
While playing with migration of virtio-mem with an ordinary file backing, I realized that migration and prealloc doesn't currently work as expected for virtio-mem. Further, Jing Qi reported that setup issues (insufficient huge pages on the destination) result in QEMU getting killed with SIGBUS instead of failing gracefully. In contrast to ordinary memory backend preallocation, virtio-mem preallocates memory before plugging blocks to the guest. Consequently, when migrating we are not actually preallocating on the destination but "only" migrate pages. Fix that be migrating the bitmap early, before any RAM content, and use that information to preallocate memory early, before migrating any RAM. Postcopy needs some extra care, and I realized that prealloc+postcopy is shaky in general. Let's at least try to mimic what ordinary prealloc+postcopy does: temporarily allocate the memory, discard it, and cross fingers that we'll still have sufficient memory when postcopy actually tries placing pages. Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> v4 -> v5: - "migration/savevm: Move more savevm handling into vmstate_save()" -- Extended patch description regarding tracing - "migration/savevm: Prepare vmdesc json writer in qemu_savevm_state_setup()" -- Move freeing to migrate_fd_cleanup() - "migration/savevm: Allow immutable device state to be migrated early (i.e., before RAM)" -- "immutable" -> "early_setup" -- Extend comment - Added some RBs (thanks!) v3 -> v4: - First 3 patches: -- Minimze code changes and simplify -- Save immutable device state during qemu_savevm_state_setup() -- Don't use vmsd priorities, use a new flag -- Split it logically up - "migration/ram: Factor out check for advised postcopy" -- Don't factor out postcopy_is_running() - "virtio-mem: Migrate immutable properties early" -- Adjust to changed vmsd interface - "virtio-mem: Proper support for preallocation with migration" -- Drop sanity check in virtio_mem_post_load_early() v2 -> v3: - New approach/rewrite, drop RB and TB of last patch v1 -> v2: - Added RBs and Tested-bys - "virtio-mem: Fail if a memory backend with "prealloc=on" is specified" -- Fail instead of warn -- Adjust subject/description David Hildenbrand (8): migration/savevm: Move more savevm handling into vmstate_save() migration/savevm: Prepare vmdesc json writer in qemu_savevm_state_setup() migration/savevm: Allow immutable device state to be migrated early (i.e., before RAM) migration/vmstate: Introduce VMSTATE_WITH_TMP_TEST() and VMSTATE_BITMAP_TEST() migration/ram: Factor out check for advised postcopy virtio-mem: Fail if a memory backend with "prealloc=on" is specified virtio-mem: Migrate immutable properties early virtio-mem: Proper support for preallocation with migration hw/core/machine.c | 4 +- hw/virtio/virtio-mem.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/hw/virtio/virtio-mem.h | 8 ++ include/migration/misc.h | 4 +- include/migration/vmstate.h | 28 ++++++- migration/migration.c | 9 +++ migration/migration.h | 4 + migration/ram.c | 8 +- migration/savevm.c | 105 +++++++++++++----------- 9 files changed, 255 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)