When doing live migration with multifd channels 8, 16 or larger number, the guest hangs in the presence of the network errors such as missing TCP ACKs.
At sender's side: The main thread is blocked on qemu_thread_join, migration_fd_cleanup is called because one thread fails on qio_channel_write_all when the network problem happens and other send threads are blocked on sendmsg. They could not be terminated. So the main thread is blocked on qemu_thread_join to wait for the threads terminated. (gdb) bt 0 0x00007f30c8dcffc0 in __pthread_clockjoin_ex () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0 1 0x000055cbb716084b in qemu_thread_join (thread=0x55cbb881f418) at ../util/qemu-thread-posix.c:627 2 0x000055cbb6b54e40 in multifd_save_cleanup () at ../migration/multifd.c:542 3 0x000055cbb6b4de06 in migrate_fd_cleanup (s=0x55cbb8024000) at ../migration/migration.c:1808 4 0x000055cbb6b4dfb4 in migrate_fd_cleanup_bh (opaque=0x55cbb8024000) at ../migration/migration.c:1850 5 0x000055cbb7173ac1 in aio_bh_call (bh=0x55cbb7eb98e0) at ../util/async.c:141 6 0x000055cbb7173bcb in aio_bh_poll (ctx=0x55cbb7ebba80) at ../util/async.c:169 7 0x000055cbb715ba4b in aio_dispatch (ctx=0x55cbb7ebba80) at ../util/aio-posix.c:381 8 0x000055cbb7173ffe in aio_ctx_dispatch (source=0x55cbb7ebba80, callback=0x0, user_data=0x0) at ../util/async.c:311 9 0x00007f30c9c8cdf4 in g_main_context_dispatch () at /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 10 0x000055cbb71851a2 in glib_pollfds_poll () at ../util/main-loop.c:232 11 0x000055cbb718521c in os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=42251070366) at ../util/main-loop.c:255 12 0x000055cbb7185321 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=0) at ../util/main-loop.c:531 13 0x000055cbb6e6ba27 in qemu_main_loop () at ../softmmu/runstate.c:726 14 0x000055cbb6ad6fd7 in main (argc=68, argv=0x7ffc0c578888, envp=0x7ffc0c578ab0) at ../softmmu/main.c:50 To make sure that the send threads could be terminated, IO channels should be shut down to avoid waiting IO. Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <lizh...@suse.de> --- v3 - >v2: Move the channel shutdown before the semaphore post. migration/multifd.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/migration/multifd.c b/migration/multifd.c index 7c9deb1921..f9423be12d 100644 --- a/migration/multifd.c +++ b/migration/multifd.c @@ -522,6 +522,9 @@ static void multifd_send_terminate_threads(Error *err) qemu_mutex_lock(&p->mutex); p->quit = true; + if (p->c) { + qio_channel_shutdown(p->c, QIO_CHANNEL_SHUTDOWN_BOTH, NULL); + } qemu_sem_post(&p->sem); qemu_mutex_unlock(&p->mutex); } -- 2.31.1