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authorMichael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com>2013-12-19 04:52:01 +0800
committerJuan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>2014-02-25 14:30:28 +0100
commit41310c68781d742fa9bbfd5fcb1df9b7f23f5759 (patch)
treef56b23e2f01be810748a104eda4716c12fa17918 /docs
parent6d3cb1f970ee85361618f7ff02869180394e012d (diff)
rdma: rename 'x-rdma' => 'rdma'
As far as we can tell, all known bugs have been fixed: 1. Parallel migrations are working 2. IPv6 migration is working 3. virt-test is working I'm not comfortable sending the revised libvirt patch until this is accepted or review suggestions are addressed, (including pin-all support. It does not make sense to remove experimental for one thing and not the other. That's too many trips through the libvirt community). Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael R. Hines <mrhines@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/rdma.txt24
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/rdma.txt b/docs/rdma.txt
index 2aca63bd72..1f5d9e9fe4 100644
--- a/docs/rdma.txt
+++ b/docs/rdma.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ bulk-phase round of the migration and can be enabled for extremely
high-performance RDMA hardware using the following command:
QEMU Monitor Command:
-$ migrate_set_capability x-rdma-pin-all on # disabled by default
+$ migrate_set_capability rdma-pin-all on # disabled by default
Performing this action will cause all 8GB to be pinned, so if that's
not what you want, then please ignore this step altogether.
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ $ migrate_set_speed 40g # or whatever is the MAX of your RDMA device
Next, on the destination machine, add the following to the QEMU command line:
-qemu ..... -incoming x-rdma:host:port
+qemu ..... -incoming rdma:host:port
Finally, perform the actual migration on the source machine:
QEMU Monitor Command:
-$ migrate -d x-rdma:host:port
+$ migrate -d rdma:host:port
PERFORMANCE
===========
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ For example, in the same 8GB RAM example with all 8GB of memory in
active use and the VM itself is completely idle using the same 40 gbps
infiniband link:
-1. x-rdma-pin-all disabled total time: approximately 7.5 seconds @ 9.5 Gbps
-2. x-rdma-pin-all enabled total time: approximately 4 seconds @ 26 Gbps
+1. rdma-pin-all disabled total time: approximately 7.5 seconds @ 9.5 Gbps
+2. rdma-pin-all enabled total time: approximately 4 seconds @ 26 Gbps
These numbers would of course scale up to whatever size virtual machine
you have to migrate using RDMA.
@@ -407,18 +407,14 @@ socket is broken during a non-RDMA based migration.
TODO:
=====
-1. 'migrate x-rdma:host:port' and '-incoming x-rdma' options will be
- renamed to 'rdma' after the experimental phase of this work has
- completed upstream.
-2. Currently, 'ulimit -l' mlock() limits as well as cgroups swap limits
+1. Currently, 'ulimit -l' mlock() limits as well as cgroups swap limits
are not compatible with infinband memory pinning and will result in
an aborted migration (but with the source VM left unaffected).
-3. Use of the recent /proc/<pid>/pagemap would likely speed up
+2. Use of the recent /proc/<pid>/pagemap would likely speed up
the use of KSM and ballooning while using RDMA.
-4. Also, some form of balloon-device usage tracking would also
+3. Also, some form of balloon-device usage tracking would also
help alleviate some issues.
-5. Move UNREGISTER requests to a separate thread.
-6. Use LRU to provide more fine-grained direction of UNREGISTER
+4. Use LRU to provide more fine-grained direction of UNREGISTER
requests for unpinning memory in an overcommitted environment.
-7. Expose UNREGISTER support to the user by way of workload-specific
+5. Expose UNREGISTER support to the user by way of workload-specific
hints about application behavior.