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From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
	Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Subject: [pve-devel] applied: [PATCH qemu] async snapshot: stop vCPU throttling after finishing
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:24:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93c7df0e-7311-4138-bb9c-9b98768db8c4@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241030095240.11452-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com>

Am 30.10.24 um 10:52 schrieb Fiona Ebner:
> In the community forum, users reported issues about RCU stalls and
> sluggish VMs after taking a snapshot with RAM in Proxmox VE [0]. Mario
> was also experiencing similar issues from time to time and recently,
> obtained a GDB stacktrace. The stacktrace showed that, in his case,
> the vCPU threads were waiting in cpu_throttle_thread(). It is a good
> guess that the issues in the forum could also be because of that.
> 
> From searching in the source code, it seems that migration is the only
> user of the vCPU throttling functions in QEMU relevant for Proxmox VE
> (the only other place where it is used is the Cocoa UI). In
> particular, RAM migration will begin throttling vCPUs for
> auto-converge.
> 
> In migration_iteration_finish() there is an unconditional call to
> cpu_throttle_stop(), so do the same in the async snapshot code
> specific to Proxmox VE.
> 
> It's not clear why the issue began to surface more prominently only
> now, since the vCPU throttling was there since commit 070afca258
> ("migration: Dynamic cpu throttling for auto-converge") in QEMU
> v2.10.0. However, there were a lot of changes in the migration code
> between v8.1.5 and v9.0.2 and a few of them might have affected the
> likelihood of cpu_throttle_set() being called, for example, 4e1871c450
> ("migration: Don't serialize devices in qemu_savevm_state_iterate()")
> 
> [0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/153483
> 
> Reported-by: Mario Loderer <m.loderer@proxmox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> Tested-by: Mario Loderer <m.loderer@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  ...-async-for-background-state-snapshots.patch | 18 +++++++++++++-----
>  ...-add-optional-buffer-size-to-QEMUFile.patch |  6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
>

applied, thanks!


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-10 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-30  9:52 [pve-devel] " Fiona Ebner
2024-11-08 15:18 ` Fiona Ebner
2024-11-10 10:24 ` Thomas Lamprecht [this message]

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