[v2,3/3] migration/multifd: Warn user when zerocopy not working

Commit Message

Leonardo Bras July 1, 2022, 3:59 p.m. UTC

Some errors, like the lack of Scatter-Gather support by the network
interface(NETIF_F_SG) may cause sendmsg(...,MSG_ZEROCOPY) to fail on using
zero-copy, which causes it to fall back to the default copying mechanism.

After each full dirty-bitmap scan there should be a zero-copy flush
happening, which checks for errors each of the previous calls to
sendmsg(...,MSG_ZEROCOPY). If all of them failed to use zero-copy, then
increment zero_copy_copied migration stat to let the user know about it.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <[e-mail]>
---
 migration/ram.h     | 2 ++
 migration/multifd.c | 2 ++
 migration/ram.c     | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

Patch

diff --git a/migration/ram.h b/migration/ram.h
index ded0a3a086..f6753f1354 100644
--- a/migration/ram.h
+++ b/migration/ram.h
@@ -87,4 +87,6 @@  void ram_write_tracking_prepare(void);
 int ram_write_tracking_start(void);
 void ram_write_tracking_stop(void);
 
+void zero_copy_copied(void);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/migration/multifd.c b/migration/multifd.c
index 684c014c86..ff19bd4881 100644
--- a/migration/multifd.c
+++ b/migration/multifd.c
@@ -624,6 +624,8 @@  int multifd_send_sync_main(QEMUFile *f)
             if (ret < 0) {
                 error_report_err(err);
                 return -1;
+            } else if (ret == 1) {
+                zero_copy_copied();
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 01f9cc1d72..0b71993951 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -407,6 +407,11 @@  static void ram_transferred_add(uint64_t bytes)
     ram_counters.transferred += bytes;
 }
 
+void zero_copy_copied(void)
+{
+    ram_counters.zero_copy_copied++;
+}
+
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