Gianluca Cecchi <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
> I'm in 4.4.3 and CentOS 8.3 with 3 hosts.
>
> I have a high performance VM that is running on ov300 and is configured to
> be run on any host.
>
> It seems that both if I set or not the option
>
> Migrate only to hosts with the same TSC frequency
>
> I always am unable to migrate the VM and inside engine.log I see this:
>
> 2020-12-11 15:56:03,424+01 INFO
>  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.scheduling.SchedulingManager] (default task-36)
> [e4801b28-c832-4474-aa53-4ebfd7c6e2d0] Candidate host 'ov301'
> ('382bfc8f-60d5-4e06-8571-7dae1700574d') was filtered out by
> 'VAR__FILTERTYPE__INTERNAL' filter 'Migration-Tsc-Frequency' (correlation
> id: null)
>
> 2020-12-11 15:56:03,424+01 INFO
>  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.scheduling.SchedulingManager] (default task-36)
> [e4801b28-c832-4474-aa53-4ebfd7c6e2d0] Candidate host 'ov200'
> ('949d0087-2c24-4759-8427-f9eade1dd2cc') was filtered out by
> 'VAR__FILTERTYPE__INTERNAL' filter 'Migration-Tsc-Frequency' (correlation
> id: null)
>
> Can you verify if it is only my problem?
>
> Apart from the problem itself, what is "TSC frequency" and how can I check
> if my 3 hosts are different or not indeed?

TSC frequency is the frequency with which Time Stamp Counter register is
updated, typically a nominal CPU frequency (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter for more details).

You can check the value oVirt gets from libvirt by running

  # virsh -r capabilities

and looking at the line like

  <counter name='tsc' frequency='2133409000' scaling='no'/>

in the output.  Unless frequency scaling is available, the host
frequencies must be almost the same in order to be able to migrate high
performance VMs among them.

Note there is a bug that may cause a migration failure for the VMs even
between hosts with the same frequencies
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1821199).  But this is apparently not your
case, since the migration is prevented already by Engine.

Regards,
Milan

> Normal VMs are able to migrate without problems
>
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
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