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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:21:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Yichen Wang To: Peter Xu , Fabiano Rosas , Paolo Bonzini , =?utf-8?q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Eduardo Habkost , =?utf-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9_Lureau?= , Thomas Huth , =?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Eric Blake , Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: "Hao Xiang" , "Liu, Yuan1" , "Zou, Nanhai" , "Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang" , "Yichen Wang" Subject: [PATCH v7 1/5] docs/migration: add qatzip compression feature Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:21:20 -0700 Message-Id: <20240815002124.65384-2-yichen.wang@bytedance.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.3 (Apple Git-146) In-Reply-To: <20240815002124.65384-1-yichen.wang@bytedance.com> References: <20240815002124.65384-1-yichen.wang@bytedance.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::633; envelope-from=yichen.wang@bytedance.com; helo=mail-pl1-x633.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org From: Yuan Liu add Intel QATzip compression method introduction Signed-off-by: Yuan Liu Reviewed-by: Nanhai Zou Reviewed-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: Yichen Wang --- docs/devel/migration/features.rst | 1 + docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 166 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/features.rst b/docs/devel/migration/features.rst index 58f8fd9e16..8f431d52f9 100644 --- a/docs/devel/migration/features.rst +++ b/docs/devel/migration/features.rst @@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ Migration has plenty of features to support different use cases. CPR qpl-compression uadk-compression + qatzip-compression diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst b/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a7f755eb7f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/devel/migration/qatzip-compression.rst @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +================== +QATzip Compression +================== +In scenarios with limited network bandwidth, the ``QATzip`` solution can help +users save a lot of host CPU resources by accelerating compression and +decompression through the Intel QuickAssist Technology(``QAT``) hardware. + + +The following test was conducted using 8 multifd channels and 10Gbps network +bandwidth. The results show that, compared to zstd, ``QATzip`` significantly +saves CPU resources on the sender and reduces migration time. Compared to the +uncompressed solution, ``QATzip`` greatly improves the dirty page processing +capability, indicated by the Pages per Second metric, and also reduces the +total migration time. + +:: + + VM Configuration: 16 vCPU and 64G memory + VM Workload: all vCPUs are idle and 54G memory is filled with Silesia data. + QAT Devices: 4 + |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------| + |8 Channels |Total |down |throughput|pages per | send | recv | + | |time(ms)|time(ms) |(mbps) |second | cpu %| cpu% | + |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------| + |qatzip | 16630| 28| 10467| 2940235| 160| 360| + |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------| + |zstd | 20165| 24| 8579| 2391465| 810| 340| + |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------| + |none | 46063| 40| 10848| 330240| 45| 85| + |-----------|--------|---------|----------|----------|------|------| + + +QATzip Compression Framework +============================ + +``QATzip`` is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist +Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and +decompression services. + +For more ``QATzip`` introduction, please refer to `QATzip Introduction +`_ + +:: + + +----------------+ + | MultiFd Thread | + +-------+--------+ + | + | compress/decompress + +-------+--------+ + | QATzip library | + +-------+--------+ + | + +-------+--------+ + | QAT library | + +-------+--------+ + | user space + --------+--------------------- + | kernel space + +------+-------+ + | QAT Driver | + +------+-------+ + | + +------+-------+ + | QAT Devices | + +--------------+ + + +QATzip Installation +------------------- + +The ``QATzip`` installation package has been integrated into some Linux +distributions and can be installed directly. For example, the Ubuntu Server +24.04 LTS system can be installed using below command + +.. code-block:: shell + + #apt search qatzip + libqatzip-dev/noble 1.2.0-0ubuntu3 amd64 + Intel QuickAssist user space library development files + + libqatzip3/noble 1.2.0-0ubuntu3 amd64 + Intel QuickAssist user space library + + qatzip/noble,now 1.2.0-0ubuntu3 amd64 [installed] + Compression user-space tool for Intel QuickAssist Technology + + #sudo apt install libqatzip-dev libqatzip3 qatzip + +If your system does not support the ``QATzip`` installation package, you can +use the source code to build and install, please refer to `QATzip source code installation +`_ + +QAT Hardware Deployment +----------------------- + +``QAT`` supports physical functions(PFs) and virtual functions(VFs) for +deployment, and users can configure ``QAT`` resources for migration according +to actual needs. For more details about ``QAT`` deployment, please refer to +`Intel QuickAssist Technology Documentation +`_ + +For more ``QAT`` hardware introduction, please refer to `intel-quick-assist-technology-overview +`_ + +How To Use QATzip Compression +============================= + +1 - Install ``QATzip`` library + +2 - Build ``QEMU`` with ``--enable-qatzip`` parameter + + E.g. configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-kvm ``--enable-qatzip`` + +3 - Set ``migrate_set_parameter multifd-compression qatzip`` + +4 - Set ``migrate_set_parameter multifd-qatzip-level comp_level``, the default +comp_level value is 1, and it supports levels from 1 to 9 + +QAT Memory Requirements +======================= + +The user needs to reserve system memory for the QAT memory management to +allocate DMA memory. The size of the reserved system memory depends on the +number of devices used for migration and the number of multifd channels. + +Because memory usage depends on QAT configuration, please refer to `QAT Memory +Driver Queires +`_ +for memory usage calculation. + +.. list-table:: An example of a PF used for migration + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Number of channels + - Sender memory usage + - Receiver memory usage + * - 2 + - 10M + - 10M + * - 4 + - 12M + - 14M + * - 8 + - 16M + - 20M + +How To Choose Between QATzip and QPL +==================================== +Starting from Intel 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Sapphire +Rapids processor(``SPR``), it supports multiple build-in accelerators including +``QAT`` and ``IAA``, the former can accelerate ``QATzip``, and the latter is +used to accelerate ``QPL``. + +Here are some suggestions: + +1 - If your live migration scenario is limited network bandwidth and ``QAT`` +hardware resources exceed ``IAA``, then use the ``QATzip`` method, which +can save a lot of host CPU resources for compression. + +2 - If your system cannot support shared virtual memory(SVM) technology, please +use ``QATzip`` method because ``QPL`` performance is not good without SVM +support. + +3 - For other scenarios, please use the ``QPL`` method first.