Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-06-06 Thread Michael R. Hines
OK, this looks excellent. I think we're ready for a PULL request now - I will submit to Juan - I've already got a signed-off from Paolo & Eric. I think we've got sufficient testing now. I'm expecting to get access to a big machine in the next week or two (256G machine) - and I should be able

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-06-06 Thread Chegu Vinod
On 6/1/2013 9:09 PM, Michael R. Hines wrote: All, I have successfully performed over 1000+ back-to-back RDMA migrations automatically looped *in a row* using a heavy-weight memory-stress benchmark here at IBM. Migration success is done by capturing the actual serial console output of the virt

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-06-01 Thread Michael R. Hines
All, I have successfully performed over 1000+ back-to-back RDMA migrations automatically looped *in a row* using a heavy-weight memory-stress benchmark here at IBM. Migration success is done by capturing the actual serial console output of the virtual machine while the benchmark is running and

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-05-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 10/05/2013 00:20, Chegu Vinod ha scritto: >> >> Wow, I didn't know that either. Perhaps this must be causing the >> entire QEMU process and its threads to seize up. >> >> It may be necessary to run the pinning command *outside* of QEMU's I/O >> lock in a separate thread if it's really that much

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-05-09 Thread Michael R. Hines
Some more followup questions below to help me debug before I start digging in... On 05/09/2013 06:20 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote: Setting aside the mlock() freezes for the moment, let's first fix your crashing problem on the destination-side. Let's make that a priority before we fix the mlock

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-05-09 Thread Chegu Vinod
On 5/9/2013 10:20 AM, Michael R. Hines wrote: Comments inline. FYI: please CC mrhi...@us.ibm.com, because it helps me know when to scroll threw the bazillion qemu-devel emails. I have things separated out into folders and rules, but a direct CC is better =) Sure will do. On 05/03/2013

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-05-09 Thread Michael R. Hines
Comments inline. FYI: please CC mrhi...@us.ibm.com, because it helps me know when to scroll threw the bazillion qemu-devel emails. I have things separated out into folders and rules, but a direct CC is better =) On 05/03/2013 07:28 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote: Hi Michael, I picked up the qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-05-03 Thread Chegu Vinod
Hi Michael, I picked up the qemu bits from your github branch and gave it a try. (BTW the setup I was given temporary access to has a pair of MLX's IB QDR cards connected back to back via QSFP cables) Observed a couple of things and wanted to share..perhaps you may be aware of them alrea

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-04-24 Thread Michael R. Hines
On 04/24/2013 05:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 24/04/2013 21:00, mrhi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com ha scritto: From: "Michael R. Hines" Changes since v5: - Removed max_size hook. The patches look good. I will not be very available in the next few days due to a public holiday here, but I believe t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-04-24 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 24/04/2013 21:00, mrhi...@linux.vnet.ibm.com ha scritto: > From: "Michael R. Hines" > > Changes since v5: > > - Removed max_size hook. The patches look good. I will not be very available in the next few days due to a public holiday here, but I believe that it's okay for 1.5. It's clearly m

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support

2013-04-24 Thread mrhines
From: "Michael R. Hines" Please pull. Changes since v5: - Removed max_size hook. - Waiting for Signed-Off bys Wiki: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/RDMALiveMigration Github: g...@github.com:hinesmr/qemu.git Here is a brief summary of total migration time and downtime using RDMA: Using a 40