[CRIU] p.haul page statistics
Adrian Reber
adrian at lisas.de
Thu Sep 8 00:34:11 PDT 2016
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 08:39:06AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:35:23AM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > Using the latest criu with p.haul the information about the pages dumped
> > looks a bit wrong. From p.haul I get:
> >
> > 09:27:59.485: 11602: Issuing pre-dump command to service
> > 09:28:00.533: 11602: Dumped 13 pages, 0 skipped
> > 09:28:00.533: 11602: Checking iteration progress:
> > 09:28:00.533: 11602: > Small dump
> >
> > But in the stats file I see:
> >
> > {
> > "magic": "STATS",
> > "entries": [
> > {
> > "dump": {
> > "freezing_time": 101,
> > "frozen_time": 15680,
> > "memdump_time": 12033,
> > "memwrite_time": 1729763,
> > "pages_scanned": 154674,
> > "pages_skipped_parent": 0,
> > "pages_written": 13,
> > "irmap_resolve": 0,
> > "pages_zero": 0,
> > "pages_lazy": 153614
> > }
> > }
> > ]
> > }
> >
> > So p.haul is kind of right as the stats file says that only 13 pages
> > have been written. But all the lazy pages have also been written.
> >
> > Should pages_written include the lazy pages or should p.haul add
> > pages_written and pages_lazy to get the actual number of pages written?
>
> I think p.haul should add pages_written and pages_lazy.
>
> When we will add post-copy support to p.haul, we will take care of proper
> reporting for lazy pages.
Some quick fix for p.haul would be nice because right now the pre-dump
iteration decision is based on pages_written which is probably 'wrong'
most of the time when using the criu-dev branch.
Adrian
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