On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 07:31:41PM +0200, Claudio Imbrenda wrote: > This patch adds support for asynchronously tearing down a VM on Linux. > > When qemu terminates, either naturally or because of a fatal signal, > the VM is torn down. If the VM is huge, it can take a considerable > amount of time for it to be cleaned up. In case of a protected VM, it > might take even longer than a non-protected VM (this is the case on > s390x, for example). > > Some users might want to shut down a VM and restart it immediately, > without having to wait. This is especially true if management > infrastructure like libvirt is used. > > This patch implements a simple trick on Linux to allow qemu to return > immediately, with the teardown of the VM being performed > asynchronously. > > If the new commandline option -async-teardown is used, a new process is > spawned from qemu at startup, using the clone syscall, in such way that > it will share its address space with qemu. > > The new process will then simpy wait until qemu terminates, and then it > will exit itself. > > This allows qemu to terminate quickly, without having to wait for the > whole address space to be torn down. The teardown process will exit > after qemu, so it will be the last user of the address space, and > therefore it will take care of the actual teardown. > > The teardown process will share the same cgroups as qemu, so both > memory usage and cpu time will be accounted properly. > > This feature can already be used with libvirt by adding the following > to the XML domain definition: > > <commandline xmlns="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0";> > <arg value='-async-teardown'/> > </commandline>
How does this work in practice ? Libvirt should be blocking until all processes in the cgroup have exited, including this cloned child process. 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 :|
