Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots

2020-11-19 Thread Andrey Gruzdev
On 18.11.2020 16:20, Andrey Gruzdev wrote: Currently the only way to make (external) live VM snapshot is using existing dirty page logging migration mechanism. The main problem is that it tends to produce a lot of page duplicates while running VM goes on updating already saved pages. That leads t

Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots

2020-11-18 Thread Andrey Gruzdev
On 18.11.2020 17:54, Eric Blake wrote: On 11/18/20 7:20 AM, Andrey Gruzdev wrote: Currently the only way to make (external) live VM snapshot is using existing dirty page logging migration mechanism. The main problem is that it tends to produce a lot of page duplicates while running VM goes on up

Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots

2020-11-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/18/20 7:20 AM, Andrey Gruzdev wrote: > Currently the only way to make (external) live VM snapshot is using existing > dirty page logging migration mechanism. The main problem is that it tends to > produce a lot of page duplicates while running VM goes on updating already > saved pages. That l

[PATCH v2 0/7] UFFD write-tracking migration/snapshots

2020-11-18 Thread Andrey Gruzdev via
Currently the only way to make (external) live VM snapshot is using existing dirty page logging migration mechanism. The main problem is that it tends to produce a lot of page duplicates while running VM goes on updating already saved pages. That leads to the fact that vmstate image size is commonl