From patchwork Thu Oct 27 06:43:07 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Zhanghailiang X-Patchwork-Id: 9399015 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA24960588 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906562A06D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 81A912A06F; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:10:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [208.118.235.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C55F2A06D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:39453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzepB-0007bT-TZ for patchwork-qemu-devel@patchwork.kernel.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:10:05 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzeTo-0006lX-1d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:48:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzeTm-0005ns-IH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:48:00 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([58.251.152.64]:14900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bzeTl-0005mQ-HA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:47:58 -0400 Received: from 172.24.1.36 (EHLO szxeml427-hub.china.huawei.com) ([172.24.1.36]) by szxrg01-dlp.huawei.com (MOS 4.3.7-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id DUE22890; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:44:28 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (10.177.24.212) by szxeml427-hub.china.huawei.com (10.82.67.182) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.235.1; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:44:18 +0800 From: zhanghailiang To: , Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:43:07 +0800 Message-ID: <1477550589-16288-17-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.2.windows.1 In-Reply-To: <1477550589-16288-1-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com> References: <1477550589-16288-1-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.177.24.212] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 58.251.152.64 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH COLO-Frame (Base) v23 16/18] docs: Add documentation for COLO feature X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: xiecl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, zhanghailiang , lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dgilbert@redhat.com Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+patchwork-qemu-devel=patchwork.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Introduce the design of COLO, and how to test it. Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang Reviewed-by: Amit Shah --- v22: - Add Reviewed-by tag v21: - Fix some minor typos and grammar from Eric --- docs/COLO-FT.txt | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/COLO-FT.txt diff --git a/docs/COLO-FT.txt b/docs/COLO-FT.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6282938 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/COLO-FT.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +COarse-grained LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service +---------------------------------------- +Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation +Copyright (c) 2016 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. +Copyright (c) 2016 Fujitsu, Corp. + +This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. +See the COPYING file in the top-level directory. + +This document gives an overview of COLO's design and how to use it. + +== Background == +Virtual machine (VM) replication is a well known technique for providing +application-agnostic software-implemented hardware fault tolerance, +also known as "non-stop service". + +COLO (COarse-grained LOck-stepping) is a high availability solution. +Both primary VM (PVM) and secondary VM (SVM) run in parallel. They receive the +same request from client, and generate response in parallel too. +If the response packets from PVM and SVM are identical, they are released +immediately. Otherwise, a VM checkpoint (on demand) is conducted. + +== Architecture == + +The architecture of COLO is shown in the diagram below. +It consists of a pair of networked physical nodes: +The primary node running the PVM, and the secondary node running the SVM +to maintain a valid replica of the PVM. +PVM and SVM execute in parallel and generate output of response packets for +client requests according to the application semantics. + +The incoming packets from the client or external network are received by the +primary node, and then forwarded to the secondary node, so that both the PVM +and the SVM are stimulated with the same requests. + +COLO receives the outbound packets from both the PVM and SVM and compares them +before allowing the output to be sent to clients. + +The SVM is qualified as a valid replica of the PVM, as long as it generates +identical responses to all client requests. Once the differences in the outputs +are detected between the PVM and SVM, COLO withholds transmission of the +outbound packets until it has successfully synchronized the PVM state to the SVM. + + Primary Node Secondary Node + +------------+ +-----------------------+ +------------------------+ +------------+ + | | | HeartBeat |<----->| HeartBeat | | | + | Primary VM | +-----------|-----------+ +-----------|------------+ |Secondary VM| + | | | | | | + | | +-----------|-----------+ +-----------|------------+ | | + | | |QEMU +---v----+ | |QEMU +----v---+ | | | + | | | |Failover| | | |Failover| | | | + | | | +--------+ | | +--------+ | | | + | | | +---------------+ | | +---------------+ | | | + | | | | VM Checkpoint |-------------->| VM Checkpoint | | | | + | | | +---------------+ | | +---------------+ | | | + | | | | | | | | + |Requests<---------------------------^------------------------------------------>Requests| + |Responses----------------------\ /--|--------------\ /------------------------Responses| + | | | | | | | | | | | | | + | | | +-----------+ | | | | | | | +------------+ | | | + | | | | COLO disk | | | | | | | | | COLO disk | | | | + | | | | Manager |-|-|--|--------------|--|->| Manager | | | | + | | | +|----------+ | | | | | | | +-----------|+ | | | + | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | + +------------+ +--|------------|-|--|--+ +---|--|--------------|--+ +------------+ + | | | | | | | + +-------------+ | +----------v-v--|--+ +---|--v-----------+ | +-------------+ + | VM Monitor | | | COLO Proxy | | COLO Proxy | | | VM Monitor | + | | | |(compare packet) | | (adjust sequence)| | | | + +-------------+ | +----------|----^--+ +------------------+ | +-------------+ + | | | | + +------------------|------------|----|--+ +---------------------|------------------+ + | Kernel | | | | | Kernel | | + +------------------|------------|----|--+ +---------------------|------------------+ + | | | | + +--------------v+ +--------v----|--+ +------------------+ +v-------------+ + | Storage | |External Network| | External Network | | Storage | + +---------------+ +----------------+ +------------------+ +--------------+ + +== Components introduction == + +You can see there are several components in COLO's diagram of architecture. +Their functions are described below. + +HeartBeat: +Runs on both the primary and secondary nodes, to periodically check platform +availability. When the primary node suffers a hardware fail-stop failure, +the heartbeat stops responding, the secondary node will trigger a failover +as soon as it determines the absence. + +COLO disk Manager: +When primary VM writes data into image, the colo disk manger captures this data +and sends it to secondary VM's which makes sure the context of secondary VM's +image is consistent with the context of primary VM 's image. +For more details, please refer to docs/block-replication.txt. + +Checkpoint/Failover Controller: +Modifications of save/restore flow to realize continuous migration, +to make sure the state of VM in Secondary side is always consistent with VM in +Primary side. + +COLO Proxy: +Delivers packets to Primary and Seconday, and then compare the responses from +both side. Then decide whether to start a checkpoint according to some rules. +Please refer to docs/colo-proxy.txt for more informations. + +Note: +HeartBeat has not been implemented yet, so you need to trigger failover process +by using 'x-colo-lost-heartbeat' command. + +== Test procedure == +1. Startup qemu +Primary: +# qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2 -qmp stdio -vnc :7 -name primary \ + -device piix3-usb-uhci \ + -device usb-tablet -netdev tap,id=hn0,vhost=off \ + -device virtio-net-pci,id=net-pci0,netdev=hn0 \ + -drive if=virtio,id=primary-disk0,driver=quorum,read-pattern=fifo,vote-threshold=1,\ + children.0.file.filename=1.raw,\ + children.0.driver=raw -S +Secondary: +# qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2 -qmp stdio -vnc :7 -name secondary \ + -device piix3-usb-uhci \ + -device usb-tablet -netdev tap,id=hn0,vhost=off \ + -device virtio-net-pci,id=net-pci0,netdev=hn0 \ + -drive if=none,id=secondary-disk0,file.filename=1.raw,driver=raw,node-name=node0 \ + -drive if=virtio,id=active-disk0,driver=replication,mode=secondary,\ + file.driver=qcow2,top-id=active-disk0,\ + file.file.filename=/mnt/ramfs/active_disk.img,\ + file.backing.driver=qcow2,\ + file.backing.file.filename=/mnt/ramfs/hidden_disk.img,\ + file.backing.backing=secondary-disk0 \ + -incoming tcp:0:8888 + +2. On Secondary VM's QEMU monitor, issue command +{'execute':'qmp_capabilities'} +{ 'execute': 'nbd-server-start', + 'arguments': {'addr': {'type': 'inet', 'data': {'host': 'xx.xx.xx.xx', 'port': '8889'} } } +} +{'execute': 'nbd-server-add', 'arguments': {'device': 'secondeary-disk0', 'writable': true } } + +Note: + a. The qmp command nbd-server-start and nbd-server-add must be run + before running the qmp command migrate on primary QEMU + b. Active disk, hidden disk and nbd target's length should be the + same. + c. It is better to put active disk and hidden disk in ramdisk. + +3. On Primary VM's QEMU monitor, issue command: +{'execute':'qmp_capabilities'} +{ 'execute': 'human-monitor-command', + 'arguments': {'command-line': 'drive_add -n buddy driver=replication,mode=primary,file.driver=nbd,file.host=xx.xx.xx.xx,file.port=8889,file.export=secondary-disk0,node-name=nbd_client0'}} +{ 'execute':'x-blockdev-change', 'arguments':{'parent': 'primary-disk0', 'node': 'nbd_client0' } } +{ 'execute': 'migrate-set-capabilities', + 'arguments': {'capabilities': [ {'capability': 'x-colo', 'state': true } ] } } +{ 'execute': 'migrate', 'arguments': {'uri': 'tcp:xx.xx.xx.xx:8888' } } + + Note: + a. There should be only one NBD Client for each primary disk. + b. xx.xx.xx.xx is the secondary physical machine's hostname or IP + c. The qmp command line must be run after running qmp command line in + secondary qemu. + +4. After the above steps, you will see, whenever you make changes to PVM, SVM will be synced. +You can issue command '{ "execute": "migrate-set-parameters" , "arguments":{ "x-checkpoint-delay": 2000 } }' +to change the checkpoint period time + +5. Failover test +You can kill Primary VM and run 'x_colo_lost_heartbeat' in Secondary VM's +monitor at the same time, then SVM will failover and client will not detect this +change. + +Before issuing '{ "execute": "x-colo-lost-heartbeat" }' command, we have to +issue block related command to stop block replication. +Primary: + Remove the nbd child from the quorum: + { 'execute': 'x-blockdev-change', 'arguments': {'parent': 'colo-disk0', 'child': 'children.1'}} + { 'execute': 'human-monitor-command','arguments': {'command-line': 'drive_del blk-buddy0'}} + Note: there is no qmp command to remove the blockdev now + +Secondary: + The primary host is down, so we should do the following thing: + { 'execute': 'nbd-server-stop' } + +== TODO == +1. Support continuous VM replication. +2. Support shared storage. +3. Develop the heartbeat part. +4. Reduce checkpoint VM’s downtime while doing checkpoint.