Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Throttle-down guest when live migration does not converge.

2013-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/24/2013 08:21 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote: > Would it be ok to pass in an additional argument to qemu as part of > trigerring the live migration i.e. to indicate if its ok to force > convergence when it fails to converge on its own after N # of tries > following the bulk transfer ? Add a new capa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Throttle-down guest when live migration does not converge.

2013-04-24 Thread Chegu Vinod
On 4/24/2013 6:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Chegu Vinod > wrote: Busy enterprise workloads hosted on large sized VM's tend to dirty memory faster than the transfer rate achieved via live guest migration. Despite some go

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Throttle-down guest when live migration does not converge.

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Chegu Vinod wrote: > Busy enterprise workloads hosted on large sized VM's tend to dirty > memory faster than the transfer rate achieved via live guest migration. > Despite some good recent improvements (& using dedicated 10Gig NICs > between hosts) the live migrat

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] Throttle-down guest when live migration does not converge.

2013-04-24 Thread Chegu Vinod
Busy enterprise workloads hosted on large sized VM's tend to dirty memory faster than the transfer rate achieved via live guest migration. Despite some good recent improvements (& using dedicated 10Gig NICs between hosts) the live migration does NOT converge. A few options that were discussed/bein