RE: [Qemu-devel] [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Li, Liang Z
> On 04/03/2016 15:26, Li, Liang Z wrote: > >> > > >> > The memory usage will keep increasing due to ever growing caches, > >> > etc, so you'll be left with very little free memory fairly soon. > >> > > > I don't think so. > > > > Roman is right. For example, here I am looking at a 64 GB (physica

RE: [Qemu-devel] [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Li, Liang Z
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:13:03PM +, Li, Liang Z wrote: > > > > Maybe I am not clear enough. > > > > > > > > I mean if we inflate balloon before live migration, for a 8GB > > > > guest, it takes > > > about 5 Seconds for the inflating operation to finish. > > > > > > And these 5 seconds are

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:13:03PM +, Li, Liang Z wrote: > > > Maybe I am not clear enough. > > > > > > I mean if we inflate balloon before live migration, for a 8GB guest, it > > > takes > > about 5 Seconds for the inflating operation to finish. > > > > And these 5 seconds are spent where? >

RE: [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Li, Liang Z
> Subject: Re: [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization > > On (Thu) 03 Mar 2016 [18:44:24], Liang Li wrote: > > The current QEMU live migration implementation mark the all the > > guest's RAM pages as dirtied in the ram bulk stage, all these pages > > will be processed and tha

Re: [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Amit Shah
On (Fri) 04 Mar 2016 [15:02:47], Jitendra Kolhe wrote: > > > > > > * Liang Li (liang.z...@intel.com) wrote: > > > > The current QEMU live migration implementation mark the all the > > > > guest's RAM pages as dirtied in the ram bulk stage, all these pages > > > > will be processed and that takes qu

Re: [RFC qemu 0/4] A PV solution for live migration optimization

2016-03-08 Thread Amit Shah
On (Thu) 03 Mar 2016 [18:44:24], Liang Li wrote: > The current QEMU live migration implementation mark the all the > guest's RAM pages as dirtied in the ram bulk stage, all these pages > will be processed and that takes quit a lot of CPU cycles. > > From guest's point of view, it doesn't care abou