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Bug 1262143 - VM startup is very slow with large amounts of hotpluggable memory
Summary: VM startup is very slow with large amounts of hotpluggable memory
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm-rhev
Version: 7.2
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 7.3
Assignee: David Gibson
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1263039
Blocks: RHEV3.6PPC 1261812 1277183 1277184 1277186 RHEV3.6PPC_PCI_Passthrough
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-10 23:47 UTC by David Gibson
Modified: 2016-02-18 15:47 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-24.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-12-04 16:57:01 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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IBM Linux Technology Center 133677 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:2546 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE qemu-kvm-rhev bug fix and enhancement update 2015-12-04 21:11:56 UTC

Description David Gibson 2015-09-10 23:47:50 UTC 
Description of problem:

If qemu is configured with large amounts of hotpluggable memory (say > 256G) it takes a very long time to start the guest.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-22.el7.ppc64le

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start qemu with
      /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M pseries -m 512M,maxmem=XXXXX ...
For maxmem=512G, 1024G, 2048G
2. Time how long until qemu starts booting the guest

Actual results:

512G: ~17s
1024G: ~2m30s
2048G: ~20m

Expected results:

<10s startup in all cases.

Additional info:

The root cause is that qemu constructs a DR connector object internally for every 256M of hotpluggable memory.  The current algorithm for doing so is O(n^3).
Comment 1 David Gibson 2015-09-10 23:51:52 UTC 
I've posted a patch upstream which improves adding the connectors to O(n^2).  This brings startup with 2048G to an acceptable 4s, unfortunately 4096G (RHEV's usual limit) is still ~35s.
Comment 4 David Gibson 2015-09-15 00:41:55 UTC 
I have a patch for this in the works, but I'll need a bunch of ack flags ASAP if I'm to get it in for the next snapshot.
Comment 5 David Gibson 2015-09-15 01:12:54 UTC 
I've made  draft brew build with the partial fix for slow startup at:

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=9835517
Comment 8 Qunfang Zhang 2015-09-15 07:07:39 UTC 
(In reply to David Gibson from comment #5)
> I've made  draft brew build with the partial fix for slow startup at:
> 
> https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=9835517


Test with the above build, boot guest with the following configuration:

Maxmem: 
256G: ~ 10s
512G: ~10s
1024G: ~15S
2048G: After 5s, hit the issue in bug 1263039 comment 4.

And this bug could be reproduced on the official build qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-22.el7.ppc64le:

Maxmem: 
256G: ~ 10s
512G: ~17s
1024G: 2~3 mins
2048G: after about 27 mins, hit bug 1263039.

Anyway, this qemu-kvm build fixes the original issue in this bug.
Comment 9 Miroslav Rezanina 2015-09-18 11:54:29 UTC 
Fix included in qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-24.el7
Comment 10 Qunfang Zhang 2015-09-24 05:23:32 UTC 
Verified this bug with the following version:

kernel-3.10.0-316.el7.ppc64le
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.3.0-25.el7.ppc64le
SLOF-20150313-5.gitc89b0df.el7.noarch

Test with the same command line with comment 2 and the result is:

Maxmem: 
256G: ~ 10s
512G: ~10s without guest desktop (with guest desktop, it consumes 20+ seconds)
1024G: ~10s without guest desktop (with guest desktop, it consumes 20+ seconds)

According to bug 1263039 comment6, we limit the maxmem to 1T.

So according to comment 8 and the above result, I will set the status to VERIFIED.
Comment 11 IBM Bug Proxy 2015-11-30 15:20:36 UTC 
------- Comment From fnovak.com 2015-11-30 15:17 EDT-------
reverse mirror of RHBZ 1262143 - VM startup is very slow with large amounts of hotpluggable memory
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-04 16:57:01 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2546.html
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