From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 stable-bookworm 8/8] migration: preserve host_mtu for virtio-net devices
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 14:40:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904124113.81772-9-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250904124113.81772-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The virtual hardware is generated differently (at least for i440fx
machines) when host_mtu is set or not set on the netdev command line
[0]. When the MTU is the same value as the default 1500, Proxmox VE
did not add a host_mtu parameter. This is problematic for migration
where host_mtu is present on one end of the migration, but not on the
other [1]. Moreover, the effective setting in the guest (state) will
still be the host_mtu from the source side, even if a different value
is used for host_mtu on the target instance's commandline. This will
not lead to an error loading the migration stream in QEMU, but having
a larger host_mtu than the bridge MTU is still problematic for certain
network traffic like
> iperf3 -c 10.10.10.11 -u -l 2k
when host_mtu=9000 and bridge MTU=1500.
Pass the values from the source to the target during migration to be
able to preserve them.
[0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449346
[1]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/live-vm-migration-fails.169537/post-796379
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
Changes in v3:
* Adapt to moved/changed get_nets_host_mtu() helper. The Network
module does not exist yet in PVE 8, and parse_net() lives in
QemuServer itself, so the helper is also moved there.
src/PVE/QemuMigrate.pm | 8 +++++++
src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/MigrationTest/QemuMigrateMock.pm | 15 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuMigrate.pm b/src/PVE/QemuMigrate.pm
index 28d7ac56..3cd7069a 100644
--- a/src/PVE/QemuMigrate.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/QemuMigrate.pm
@@ -959,6 +959,10 @@ sub phase2_start_local_cluster {
push @$cmd, '--force-cpu', $start->{forcecpu};
}
+ if ($start->{'nets-host-mtu'}) {
+ push @$cmd, '--nets-host-mtu', $start->{'nets-host-mtu'};
+ }
+
if ($self->{storage_migration}) {
push @$cmd, '--targetstorage', ($self->{opts}->{targetstorage} // '1');
}
@@ -1144,6 +1148,10 @@ sub phase2 {
},
};
+ if (my $nets_host_mtu = PVE::QemuServer::get_nets_host_mtu($vmid, $conf)) {
+ $params->{start_params}->{'nets-host-mtu'} = $nets_host_mtu;
+ }
+
my ($tunnel_info, $spice_port);
my @online_local_volumes = $self->filter_local_volumes('online');
diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index 47c96726..5b08b3e3 100644
--- a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -9533,4 +9533,31 @@ sub delete_ifaces_ipams_ips {
}
}
+sub get_nets_host_mtu {
+ my ($vmid, $conf) = @_;
+
+ my $nets_host_mtu = [];
+ for my $opt (sort keys $conf->%*) {
+ next if $opt !~ m/^net(\d+)$/;
+ my $net = parse_net($conf->{$opt});
+ next if $net->{model} ne 'virtio';
+
+ my $host_mtu = eval {
+ mon_cmd(
+ $vmid, 'qom-get',
+ path => "/machine/peripheral/$opt",
+ property => 'host_mtu',
+ );
+ };
+ if (my $err = $@) {
+ log_warn("$opt: could not query host_mtu - $err");
+ } elsif (defined($host_mtu)) {
+ push $nets_host_mtu->@*, "${opt}=${host_mtu}";
+ } else {
+ log_warn("$opt: got undefined value when querying host_mtu");
+ }
+ }
+ return join(',', $nets_host_mtu->@*);
+}
+
1;
diff --git a/src/test/MigrationTest/QemuMigrateMock.pm b/src/test/MigrationTest/QemuMigrateMock.pm
index f678f9ec..05b2c5c1 100644
--- a/src/test/MigrationTest/QemuMigrateMock.pm
+++ b/src/test/MigrationTest/QemuMigrateMock.pm
@@ -175,6 +175,21 @@ $MigrationTest::Shared::qemu_server_module->mock(
delete $expected_calls->{'vm_stop'};
},
del_nets_bridge_fdb => sub { return; },
+ mon_cmd => sub {
+ my ($vmid, $command, %params) = @_;
+
+ if ($command eq 'qom-get') {
+ if (
+ $params{path} =~ m|^/machine/peripheral/net\d+$|
+ && $params{property} eq 'host_mtu'
+ ) {
+ return 1500;
+ }
+ die "mon_cmd (mocked) - implement me: $command for path '$params{path}' property"
+ . " '$params{property}'";
+ }
+ die "mon_cmd (mocked) - implement me: $command";
+ },
);
my $qemu_server_cpuconfig_module = Test::MockModule->new("PVE::QemuServer::CPUConfig");
--
2.39.5
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-04 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-04 12:40 [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server v3 0/8] virtio-net: fix migration between default/non-default MTUs Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 1/8] virtio-net: fix migration between default/non-default MTUs starting with machine version 10.0+pve1 Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 2/8] api: vm start: introduce nets-host-mtu parameter for migration compat Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 3/8] migration: preserve host_mtu for virtio-net devices Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 4/8] snapshot: save vmstate: avoid using deprecated check_running() function Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 5/8] snapshot: save vmstate: die when PID cannot be obtained Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 6/8] snapshot: introduce running-nets-host-mtu property Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 stable-bookworm 7/8] api: vm start: introduce nets-host-mtu parameter for migration compat Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 12:40 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2025-09-04 18:11 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v3 stable-bookworm 8/8] migration: preserve host_mtu for virtio-net devices Thomas Lamprecht
2025-09-05 8:54 ` Fiona Ebner
2025-09-05 9:09 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2025-09-05 9:17 ` Fiona Ebner
2025-09-04 13:06 ` [pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server v3 0/8] virtio-net: fix migration between default/non-default MTUs Fabian Grünbichler
2025-09-04 18:16 ` [pve-devel] applied: " Thomas Lamprecht
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