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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 2] [Resend v2] remus: Checkpoint Compression

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 2] [Resend v2] remus: Checkpoint Compression
From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:55:57 +0100
Cc: "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 05:32 +0100, Shriram Rajagopalan wrote:
>> > This patch series adds checkpoint compression functionality to Remus.
>>
>> Would there be any benefit to applying this technique to the second and
>> subsequent rounds of a normal live migration? Or do you need the greater
>> number of rounds which Remus implies to really see the benefit?
>>
> The benefits (bandwidth wise) will show up from 3rd round or so. 1st round,
> since
> "all" pages are sent as-is, they are not cached. 2nd round is where you
> would
> start caching pages. 3rd round onwards, you would see the benefits of the
> compression
> (depending on the workload in the VM).

So it sounds like the amount of bandwidth savings depends on how many
rounds you go after the 2nd round; I'm not sure how many that is on
average, but it seems unlikely to be too large.

On the other hand, if there's not too much of a cost, it might
actually make the code simpler to send compressed checkpoints by
default, rather than by gating them on Remus.

 -George

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