Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-04-27 Thread Joshua Otto
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:37:16PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:03:29AM -0400, Joshua Otto wrote: > > I guess the way I had imagined an administrator using them would be in a > > non-production/test environment - if they could run workloads > > representative of their producti

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-04-12 Thread Wei Liu
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:03:29AM -0400, Joshua Otto wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:08:02PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > > > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > > > count refers to the number of page-copying iterat

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-03-29 Thread Joshua Otto
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:08:02PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > > count refers to the number of page-copying iterations performed prior to > > the suspension of the guest and transmiss

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 08/20] libxl/migration: add precopy tuning parameters

2017-03-29 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 27/03/17 10:06, Joshua Otto wrote: > In the context of the live migration algorithm, the precopy iteration > count refers to the number of page-copying iterations performed prior to > the suspension of the guest and transmission of the final set of dirty > pages. Similarly, the precopy dirty th