From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=3.0 tests=FROM_EXCESS_BASE64, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96788C3A5A2 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B4CB21848 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:33:24 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 6B4CB21848 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([::1]:54156 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i17op-0004ls-Jj for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:33:23 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i17n1-0003To-S0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:31:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i17mz-0008ML-T2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:31:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i17mz-0008Ko-H7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:31:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ot1-f71.google.com (mail-ot1-f71.google.com [209.85.210.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D0444E93D for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot1-f71.google.com with SMTP id y18so4739552oto.21 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:31:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9rFD4iE2c/oCg2BukaoW00omWw2NGXi5wXY3WN5nWhU=; b=SS5+mmmboIAdMzeME4K5CP5XlyS+4s/wkjFEjwXC3JzYOXc/h6wUIgElyabjcWScNO MvLrta00GSnsGPK5ZzIW8AlZRSwI0EUcbfMK9v8GrOs5Vm+i6YK31P4Se7GY/wWDPhtC x47MF33JtoMKVM2uEpUEtsRuSWHTM9fSxcQKJ47Ugl0we3hU11/76qD7p778jEYqSTgt QFQ3rOKSJWMpVUSKjO74blyL7+puaM8nLN8n+05hfUJTyaz/MhC9YucoFRrEwtqGAKve GID3ZGTXZxgOYBohv/Nrv5feL/kuBQX4pRp9nM1uzURhADHD1VwjQipH7Yv9HWX/9Ldg Ky/A== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWaGj40rbr5cdbn201flRaKVyN0doDYtspTV5XSC9F3awQ1K6+b 7prvDsNZWNxzuLDGlsF9cL9Boqryay7Jj+7VuKnUGQeOb1xrO6pAl99a3tAqXERVjrM+3gUOHXr 8tCV4l8s0AJu8jhiLe1hm1G8P/VrbFMs= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:9b6:: with SMTP id e22mr2752194oig.6.1566559887825; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:31:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwCTYvZiXHLASYM12gH6N3F2SXBGg8yxh15Nts+cf28c9GBAas7gf1gw0+UObC3VtT40er29pllnn03kT+w1uQ= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:9b6:: with SMTP id e22mr2752172oig.6.1566559887516; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 04:31:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190808150325.21939-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> <20190823112053.GE9654@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20190823112053.GE9654@redhat.com> From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6kgTHVyZWF1?= Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:31:16 +0400 Message-ID: To: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Add dbus-vmstate X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Laurent Vivier , Thomas Huth , Juan Quintela , qemu-devel , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Stefan Hajnoczi , Paolo Bonzini Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Hi On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:21 PM Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 07:03:23PM +0400, Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > With external processes or helpers participating to the VM support, it > > becomes necessary to handle their migration. Various options exist to > > transfer their state: > > 1) as the VM memory, RAM or devices (we could say that's how > > vhost-user devices can be handled today, they are expected to > > restore from ring state) > > 2) other "vmstate" (as with TPM emulator state blobs) > > 3) left to be handled by management layer > > > > 1) is not practical, since an external processes may legitimatelly > > need arbitrary state date to back a device or a service, or may not > > even have an associated device. > > > > 2) needs ad-hoc code for each helper, but is simple and working > > > > 3) is complicated for management layer, QEMU has the migration timing > > > > The proposed "dbus-vmstate" object will connect to a given D-Bus > > peer address, and save/load from org.qemu.VMState1 interface. > > > > This way, helpers can have their state migrated with QEMU, without > > implementing another ad-hoc support (such as done for TPM emulation) > > > > I chose D-Bus as it is ubiquitous on Linux (it is systemd IPC), and > > can be made to work on various other OSes. There are several > > implementations and good bindings for various languages. > > (the tests/dbus-vmstate-test.c is a good example of how simple > > the implementation of services can be, even in C) > > > > v2: > > - D-Bus is most common and practical through a bus, but it requires a > > daemon to be running. I argue that the benefits outweight the cost > > of running an extra daemon in v1 in the context of multi-process > > qemu, but it is also possible to connect in p2p mode as done in this > > new version. > > So yesterday Stefanha brought up need for "mgmt apis" on the > virtiofsd helper process & the conclusion is that dbus makes > most sense for this purpose: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2019-August/msg00339.html > > This use case is a slightly different from vmstate though. > > For vmstate we have two parties - virtiofsd and QEMU talking > > For the "mgmt apis" in virtiofsd, we have arbitrary parties > involved - virtiofsd *and* an admin client tool, and/or > maybe libvirt. > > I think this different scenario means that we do in fact need > to have a bus present, as the p2p model doesn't scale well > to many clients. > > Even if we have 1 dbus-daemon per QEMU instance, we need to cope > with multiple instances of the same helper needing to connect. > So we need to come up with some for identifying services. Normally > DBus only allows 1 peer to own a given well known service name at > any time. So we can't simply talk to a well-known 'org.qemu.virtiofsd' > service name. > > Each service would need to to just rely on exporting objects under > its unique service id (they look like :1.NNNN for some uniq NNN) > > QEMU still needs to known which connections on the bus are actually > providing vhost-user services, and which are other things (like > libvirt or random mgmt tools) > > So perhaps QEMU should expose a service 'org.qemu.VhostUserManager' > with an object /org/qemu/VhostUSerManager > > Each helper supporting vmstate could register its existance > by invoking a method > > org.qemu.VhostUserManager.Register(":1.NNNN") There is no need for extra registration if the services are queued. You can then query the queue of org.qemu.VhostUser instances. This is the approach I took in v1 of this series with org.qemu.VMState1 service name. See https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190708072437.3339-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.= com/20190708072437.3339-4-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com/ as well as the libvirt series https://patchew.org/Libvirt/20190708070747.1962-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.c= om/ Other approaches are common prefix (ex: org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.FooBar), which also allows to identify a particular implementation in a simple way. > > For things we want every vhost user daemon to implement, we can > define well known objects paths & intefaces to expose at the path. > > eg If the helper supports vmstate dump, it should export an object > at the well known path "/org/qemu/VMState" with methods x, y & z > > If the helper supports debug logging it should export an object at > the well known path "/org/qemu/Logger" with method a, b & c > > etc > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberran= ge :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.c= om :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberran= ge :|