migration: always initialise ram_counters for a new migration
commit87f3bd8717cd88932de302e215f1da51bfb8051a
authorIvan Ren <ivanren@tencent.com>
Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:18:41 +0000 (2 18:18 +0800)
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:33:14 +0000 (14 17:33 +0100)
tree7ef1f3e59f7ed9f2bd86e08b9dd85dc7bbb5de95
parent14adf288d3a1617bf9ccf2da346b2b002a07d8f2
migration: always initialise ram_counters for a new migration

This patch fix a multifd migration bug in migration speed calculation, this
problem can be reproduced as follows:
1. start a vm and give a heavy memory write stress to prevent the vm be
   successfully migrated to destination
2. begin a migration with multifd
3. migrate for a long time [actually, this can be measured by transferred bytes]
4. migrate cancel
5. begin a new migration with multifd, the migration will directly run into
   migration_completion phase

Reason as follows:

Migration update bandwidth and s->threshold_size in function
migration_update_counters after BUFFER_DELAY time:

    current_bytes = migration_total_bytes(s);
    transferred = current_bytes - s->iteration_initial_bytes;
    time_spent = current_time - s->iteration_start_time;
    bandwidth = (double)transferred / time_spent;
    s->threshold_size = bandwidth * s->parameters.downtime_limit;

In multifd migration, migration_total_bytes function return
qemu_ftell(s->to_dst_file) + ram_counters.multifd_bytes.
s->iteration_initial_bytes will be initialized to 0 at every new migration,
but ram_counters is a global variable, and history migration data will be
accumulated. So if the ram_counters.multifd_bytes is big enough, it may lead
pending_size >= s->threshold_size become false in migration_iteration_run
after the first migration_update_counters.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Ren <ivanren@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Message-Id: <1564741121-1840-1-git-send-email-ivanren@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
migration/migration.c
migration/savevm.c