Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Eric Blake 61f2b6ba5f qemu: fix domjobabort regression
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
respect asynchronous abort requests, or else periodically return
control to the main handling loop without an EAGAIN and without
waiting to hit an insanely large amount of data.  But until a
version of qemu is fixed to support "unlimited" data rates while
still allowing cancellation, the best we can do is avoid the
automatic use of unlimited rates from within libvirt (users can
still explicitly change the migration rates, if they are aware that
they are giving up the ability to cancel a job).

Reverting the lone use of QEMU_DOMAIN_FILE_MIG_BANDWIDTH_MAX is
the simplest patch; this slows migration back down to a default
32M/sec cap, but also ensures that the main qemu processing loop
will still be responsive to cancellation requests.  Hopefully
upstream qemu will provide us a means of safely using unlimited
speed, including a runtime probe of that capability.

* src/qemu/qemu_migration.c (qemuMigrationToFile): Revert attempt
to use unlimited migration bandwidth when migrating to file.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-11 16:43:24 -07:00
.gnulib@e56e96fe20 build: drop useless dirent.h includes 2011-11-11 14:12:37 -07:00
daemon startupPolicty: Minor cleanups 2011-10-31 15:25:09 +01:00
docs Release of libvirt-0.9.7 2011-11-08 14:55:25 +08:00
examples Add APIs for virNetSocket for sending/receiving file descriptors 2011-10-28 10:23:53 +01:00
gnulib build: fix mingw build of gnulib openpty 2011-11-09 09:12:40 -07:00
include Fix naming of constant for disk event 2011-11-04 12:16:19 +00:00
m4 tests: Lower stack usage below 4096 bytes 2011-04-30 19:59:52 +02:00
po Split bridge.h into three separate files 2011-11-09 16:34:25 +00:00
python python: Fix documentation of virStream recv 2011-10-31 18:07:05 +01:00
src qemu: fix domjobabort regression 2011-11-11 16:43:24 -07:00
tests Santize naming of socket address APIs 2011-11-09 17:10:23 +00:00
tools Adjust naming of network device bandwidth management APIs 2011-11-09 17:10:28 +00:00
.dir-locals.el maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files 2011-08-13 08:56:26 -06:00
.gitignore snapshot: test domainsnapshot indentation 2011-10-20 16:02:16 -06:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap maint: use mailmap, not AUTHORS, for secondary addresses 2011-11-11 08:56:19 -07:00
AUTHORS maint: use mailmap, not AUTHORS, for secondary addresses 2011-11-11 08:56:19 -07:00
autobuild.sh spec: mingw cleanups 2011-10-13 09:21:02 -06:00
autogen.sh build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
bootstrap build: fix compilation on mingw64 2011-08-19 07:20:10 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
cfg.mk build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
ChangeLog-old generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
configure.ac Split bridge.h into three separate files 2011-11-09 16:34:25 +00:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Disable numactl on ARM architectures too 2011-11-10 11:33:17 +00:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Add libvirt confdir to files section in mingw32 spec 2011-11-10 11:30:57 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>