On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:29:23AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
This reverts commit ef1065cf5ac; see also this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751900
In qemu 0.15.1 and earlier, during migration to file, the
qemu_savevm_state_begin and qemu_savevm_state_iterate methods
will both process as much migration data as possible until either
1. The file descriptor returns EAGAIN
2. The bandwidth rate limit is reached
If we set the rate limit to ULONG_MAX, test 2 never becomes true. We're
passing a plain file descriptor to QEMU and POSIX does not support EAGAIN on
regular files / block devices, so test 1 never becomes true either.
In the 'virsh save --bypass-cache' case, we pass a pipe instead of a
regular fd, but using a pipe adds I/O overhead, so always passing a
pipe just so qemu can see EAGAIN doesn't seem nice.
The ultimate fix needs to come from qemu - background migration must
ACK, it's a bit of a shame, but until we have a fix, it's more
important to be able to abort a save to disk than to be able to save
at a speed of more than 32MB/s (if the storage system support this)
Daniel
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