[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] High downtime with 95+ throttle pct

[Yury Kotov]

Hi,

V5:
* Updated sleep loop in throttle_thread at the suggestion of Paolo Bonzini
* Fixed hanging of test

V4:
* The test was simplified to prevent false fails.

V3:
* Rebase fixes (migrate_set_parameter -> migrate_set_parameter_int)

V2:
* Added a test
* Fixed qemu_cond_timedwait for qsp

I wrote a test for migration auto converge and found out a strange thing:
1. Enable auto converge
2. Set max-bandwidth 1Gb/s
3. Set downtime-limit 1ms
4. Run standard test (just writes a byte per page)
5. Wait for converge
6. It's converged with 99% throttle percentage
7. The result downtime was about 300-600ms   <<<<

It's much higher than expected 1ms. I figured out that cpu_throttle_thread()
function sleeps for 100ms+ for high throttle percentage (>=95%) in VCPU thread.
And it sleeps even after a cpu kick.

Fixed it by using timedwait for ms part of sleep.
E.g timedwait(halt_cond, 1ms) + usleep(500).

Regards,
Yury

Yury Kotov (3):
  qemu-thread: Add qemu_cond_timedwait
  cpus: Fix throttling during vm_stop
  tests/migration: Add a test for auto converge

 cpus.c                   |  25 +++++---
 include/qemu/thread.h    |  18 ++++++
 tests/migration-test.c   | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 util/qemu-thread-posix.c |  40 +++++++++----
 util/qemu-thread-win32.c |  16 ++++++
 util/qsp.c               |  18 ++++++
 6 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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