Bug 609261 – Exec outgoing migration is too slow

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Bug 609261 - Exec outgoing migration is too slow

Summary:	Exec outgoing migration is too slow

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	qemu-kvm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Karen Noel
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
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Duplicates:	591366 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	580953
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Reported:	2010-06-29 15:18 EDT by Juan Quintela
Modified:	2013-01-09 17:47 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.95.el6
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Last Closed:	2010-07-20 06:31:15 EDT
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Description Juan Quintela 2010-06-29 15:18:26 EDT

Description of problem:

Exec migration is very slow (writes at the speed of 1.5MB/s on my hardware).

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

All.

How reproducible:
Allways.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start qemu
2. migrate in command line with something like:
   migrate -d "exec: dd of=/tmp/kkk"
3.
  
Actual results:

very low write speed (~1MB/s)

Expected results:

fastest write (~30MB/s at least)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Juan Quintela 2010-06-29 15:20:50 EDT

Problem is that code is using double buffering (using FILE on top of QEMUFile abstraction).  With a hack to change fwrite() to write() speeds got back to normal.  Will fix things properly.

Comment 3 Avi Kivity 2010-07-07 13:08:45 EDT

Real problem is that the small pipe buffers fill up easily, and QEMUFileBuffered clams up until 100 ms pass.

Fix is to let migration know we're ready when the pipes come back.

Comment 8 Mike Cao 2010-07-20 06:29:29 EDT

Verified in qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.96.el6 ,Reproduced in Reproduce in qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.94.el6

Steps:
1. start qemu-kvm
2. {"execute":"migrate","arguments":{"uri":"dd of=/home/tt"}}

Actual Results:
the write speed is 18MB/s ,the read speed is 91Mb/s

The bug has already been fixed.

Comment 9 Mike Cao 2010-07-20 06:30:50 EDT

According to comment #8 ,close this issue.

Comment 10 Avi Kivity 2010-11-18 05:25:21 EST

*** Bug 591366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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