[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>]

The results of comment 23 suggest that the issue is not 100%
reproducible.  Can you please run the benchmark 3-4 times
(presave/postrestore) and showall 4 results? One benchmark only, e.g.
"simple read" will do.

Also please try putting a big file on disk (something like "dd
if=/dev/zero of=bigfile count=64K bs=64K") and then doing "cat bigfile >
/dev/null" after restoring. Please check if that makes performance more
consistent.

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Title:
  Live Migration Causes Performance Issues

Status in QEMU:
  New
Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I have 2 physical hosts running Ubuntu Precise.  With 1.0+noroms-
  0ubuntu14.7 and qemu-kvm 1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu7 (source from quantal,
  built for Precise with pbuilder.) I attempted to build qemu-1.3.0 debs
  from source to test, but libvirt seems to have an issue with it that I
  haven't been able to track down yet.

   I'm seeing a performance degradation after live migration on Precise,
  but not Lucid.  These hosts are managed by libvirt (tested both
  0.9.8-2ubuntu17 and 1.0.0-0ubuntu4) in conjunction with OpenNebula.  I
  don't seem to have this problem with lucid guests (running a number of
  standard kernels, 3.2.5 mainline and backported linux-
  image-3.2.0-35-generic as well.)

  I first noticed this problem with phoronix doing compilation tests,
  and then tried lmbench where even simple calls experience performance
  degradation.

  I've attempted to post to the kvm mailing list, but so far the only
  suggestion was it may be related to transparent hugepages not being
  used after migration, but this didn't pan out.  Someone else has a
  similar problem here -
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/100592

  qemu command line example: /usr/bin/kvm -name one-2 -S -M pc-1.2 -cpu
  Westmere -enable-kvm -m 73728 -smp 16,sockets=2,cores=8,threads=1
  -uuid f89e31a4-4945-c12c-6544-149ba0746c2f -no-user-config -nodefaults
  -chardev
  socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/one-2.monitor,server,nowait
  -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc
  base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -no-shutdown -device
  piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
  file=/var/lib/one//datastores/0/2/disk.0,if=none,id=drive-virtio-
  disk0,format=raw,cache=none -device virtio-blk-
  pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-
  disk0,bootindex=1 -drive
  file=/var/lib/one//datastores/0/2/disk.1,if=none,id=drive-
  ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive
  =drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -netdev
  tap,fd=23,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=25 -device virtio-net-
  pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=02:00:0a:64:02:fe,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
  -vnc 0.0.0.0:2,password -vga cirrus -incoming tcp:0.0.0.0:49155
  -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5

  Disk backend is LVM running on SAN via FC connection (using symlink
  from /var/lib/one/datastores/0/2/disk.0 above)

  
  ubuntu-12.04 - first boot
  ==========================================
  Simple syscall: 0.0527 microseconds
  Simple read: 0.1143 microseconds
  Simple write: 0.0953 microseconds
  Simple open/close: 1.0432 microseconds

  Using phoronix pts/compuational
  ImageMagick - 31.54s
  Linux Kernel 3.1 - 43.91s
  Mplayer - 30.49s
  PHP - 22.25s

  
  ubuntu-12.04 - post live migration
  ==========================================
  Simple syscall: 0.0621 microseconds
  Simple read: 0.2485 microseconds
  Simple write: 0.2252 microseconds
  Simple open/close: 1.4626 microseconds

  Using phoronix pts/compilation
  ImageMagick - 43.29s
  Linux Kernel 3.1 - 76.67s
  Mplayer - 45.41s
  PHP - 29.1s

  
  I don't have phoronix results for 10.04 handy, but they were within 1% of each other...

  ubuntu-10.04 - first boot
  ==========================================
  Simple syscall: 0.0524 microseconds
  Simple read: 0.1135 microseconds
  Simple write: 0.0972 microseconds
  Simple open/close: 1.1261 microseconds

  
  ubuntu-10.04 - post live migration
  ==========================================
  Simple syscall: 0.0526 microseconds
  Simple read: 0.1075 microseconds
  Simple write: 0.0951 microseconds
  Simple open/close: 1.0413 microseconds

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