On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 05:56:10PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 02:43:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:51AM -0400, Steven Sistare wrote: > > > On 10/25/2024 4:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Steven Sistare wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Regarding: "what you want is effectively to execute monitor commands > > > > > from the migration stream" > > > > > > > > > > That is not the goal of this series. It could be someone else's > > > > > goal, when > > > > > fully developing a precreate phase, and in that context I understand > > > > > and > > > > > agree with your comments. I have a narrower immediate problem to > > > > > solve, > > > > > however. > > > > > > > > > > For CPR, src qemu sends file descriptors to dst qemu using SCM_RIGHTS > > > > > over > > > > > a dedicated channel, then src qemu sends migration state over the > > > > > normal > > > > > migration channel. > > > > > > > > > > Dst qemu reads the fds early, then calls the backend and device > > > > > creation > > > > > functions which use them. Dst qemu then accepts and reads the > > > > > migration > > > > > channel. > > > > > > > > > > We need a way to send monitor commands that set dst migration > > > > > capabilities, > > > > > before src qemu starts the migration. Hence the dst cannot proceed to > > > > > backend and device creation because the src has not sent fd's yet. > > > > > Hence > > > > > we need a dst monitor before device creation. The precreate phase > > > > > does that. > > > > > > > > Sigh, what we obviously need here, is what we've always talked about as > > > > our > > > > long term design goal: > > > > > > > > A way to launch QEMU with the CLI only specifying the QMP socket, and > > > > every > > > > other config aspect done by issuing QMP commands, which are processed > > > > in the > > > > order the mgmt app sends them, so QEMU hasn't have to hardcode > > > > processing > > > > of different pieces in different phases. > > > > > > > > Anything that isn't that, is piling more hacks on top of our existing > > > > mountain of hacks. That's OK if it does something useful as a side > > > > effect > > > > that moves us incrementally closer towards that desired end goal. > > > > > > > > > Regarding: "This series makes this much more complex." > > > > > > > > > > I could simplify it if I abandon CPR for chardevs. Then > > > > > qemu_create_early_backends > > > > > and other early dependencies can remain as is. I would drop the > > > > > notion of > > > > > a precreate phase, and instead leverage the preconfig phase. I would > > > > > move > > > > > qemu_create_late_backends, and a small part at the end of qemu_init, > > > > > to > > > > > qmp_x_exit_preconfig. > > > > > > > > Is CPR still going to useful enough in the real world if you drop > > > > chardev > > > > support ? Every VM has at least one chardev for a serial device doesn't > > > > it, and often more since we wire chardevs into all kinds of places. > > > > > > CPR for chardev is not as useful for cpr-transfer mode because the mgmt > > > layer already > > > knows how to create and manage new connections to dest qemu, as it would > > > for normal > > > migration. > > > > > > CPR for chardev is very useful for cpr-exec mode. And cpr-exec mode does > > > not need any > > > of these monitor patches, because old qemu exec's new qemu, and they are > > > never active > > > at the same time. One must completely specify the migration using src > > > qemu before > > > initiating the exec. I mourn cpr-exec mode. > > > > > > Which begs the question, do we really need to allow migration parameters > > > to be set > > > in the dest monitor when using cpr? CPR is a very restricted mode of > > > migration. > > > Let me discuss this with Peter. > > > > The migration QAPI design has always felt rather odd to me, in that we > > have perfectly good commands "migrate" & "migrate-incoming" that are able > > to accept an arbitrary list of parameters when invoked. Instead of passing > > parameters to them though, we instead require apps use the separate > > migreate-set-parameters/capabiltiies commands many times over to set > > global variables which the later 'migrate' command then uses. > > Just to mention, we will still need some special parameters that can change > during migration, like max-bandwidth, max-downtime etc. So not all of them > can be made into "migrate"/"migrate-incoming" arguments.
I guess we can leave migrate-set-parameters with the sub-set of parameters needed at runtime, or have a 'migrate-update' command for those, to make it clear which are valid to set at runtime, and which are not valid at initial start. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
