Xen devel - Aug 2013 - Re: Is fallback vhost_net to qemu for live migrate available？

Hi Qin,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Qin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@huawei.com>
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am participating in a project which try to port vhost_net on Xen。
Neat!
> By change the memory copy and notify mechanism ，currently virtio-net with
> vhost_net could run on Xen with good performance。
I think the key in doing this would be to implement a property
ioeventfd and irqfd interface in the driver domain kernel.  Just
hacking vhost_net with Xen specific knowledge would be pretty nasty
IMHO.

Did you modify the front end driver to do grant table mapping or is
this all being done by mapping the domain's memory?
> TCP receive throughput of
> single vnic from 2.77Gbps up to 6Gps。In VM receive side，I instead
grant_copy
> with grant_map + memcopy，it efficiently reduce the cost of grant_table
> spin_lock of dom0，So the hole server TCP performance from 5.33Gps up to
> 9.5Gps。
>
> Now I am consider the live migrate of vhost_net on Xen，vhost_net use
> vhost_log for live migrate on Kvm，but qemu on Xen havn't manage the
hole
> memory of VM，So I am trying to fallback datapath from vhost_net to qemu
when
> doing live migrate ，and fallback datapath from qemu to
> vhost_net again after vm migrate to new server。
KVM and Xen represent memory in a very different way.  KVM can only
track when guest mode code dirties memory.  It relies on QEMU to track
when guest memory is dirtied by QEMU.  Since vhost is running outside
of QEMU, vhost also needs to tell QEMU when it has dirtied memory.

I don't think this is a problem with Xen though.  I believe (although
could be wrong) that Xen is able to track when either the domain or
dom0 dirties memory.

So I think you can simply ignore the dirty logging with vhost and it
should Just Work.
>
> My question is：
>         why didn't vhost_net do the same fallback operation for live
migrate
> on KVM，but use vhost_log to mark the dirty page？
>         Is there any mechanism fault for the idea of fallback datapath from
> vhost_net to qemu for live migrate？
No, we don't have a mechanism to fallback  to QEMU for the datapath.
It would be possible but I think it's a bad idea to mix and match the
two.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> any question about the detail of vhost_net on Xen is welcome。
>
> Thanks
>
>
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