[libvirt] Release candidate 2 of 1.0.3 is available

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 15:53:17 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:26:24PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 27.02.2013 12:20, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >    I have just tagged git and pushed the tarball. The rpms for F17
> > are at the usual place too:
> >      ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
> > 
> >    I gave a try to the set of rpms and this seems to work fine for
> > relatively simple tests.
> >    Please give it more testing and let's keep change to git to
> > bug fixes to minimize risks for 1.0.3.
> > If everything goes well I will push 1.0.3 on Friday,
> > 
> >     thanks !
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> Maybe we want to postpone the release a bit; I was trying to find out how drop of qemu driver lock speeds up parallel startup of multiple domains, however - it is not working.
> 
> I've created small test program - test4.c and run it against current HEAD. It takes arguments - domain names - which it spawns a separate thread per each domain and repeatedly starts and destroys domains. See code for more.
> 
> Then, I've created 20 copies of diskless domain (attached as well): test1..test20 and run my test4 program over them:
> 
> ./test4 $(for ((i=1; i<21; i++)); do echo -n "test$i "; done)
> 
> I had to tweak max_client_requests=20 to really run those 20 requests in parallel.
> 
> However, what I am getting instead of nice measuring of speedup is:
> 
> [9722] Starting test1 (round 20) ...[9725] Starting test4 (round 20) ...[9724] Starting test3 (round 20) ...[9723] Starting test2 (round 20) ...[9726] Starting test5 (round 20) ...[9727] Starting test6 (round 20) ...[9728] Starting test7 (round 20) ...[9729] Starting test8 (round 20) ...[9730] Starting test9 (round 20) ...[9731] Starting test10 (round 20) ...[9732] Starting test11 (round 20) ...[9733] Starting test12 (round 20) ...[9734] Starting test13 (round 20) ...[9735] Starting test14 (round 20) ...[9736] Starting test15 (round 20) ...[9737] Starting test16 (round 20) ...[9738] Starting test17 (round 20) ...[9741] Starting test20 (round 20) ...[9739] Starting test18 (round 20) ...[9740] Starting test19 (round 20) ...libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test12libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test14libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test7libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test1libvir: QEMU Driver error : Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
> Unable to destroy domain test12[9733] Destroying test12 ...[9728] Destroying test7 ...[9735] Destroying test14 ...[9733] Starting test12 (round 19) ...libvir: QEMU Driver error : Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
> Unable to destroy domain test7[9728] Starting test7 (round 19) ...libvir: QEMU Driver error : Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
> Unable to destroy domain test14[9735] Starting test14 (round 19) ...libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test18libvir: QEMU Driver error : Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running
> Unable to destroy domain test1[9722] Destroying test1 ...[9722] Starting test1 (round 19) ...libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test8libvir:  error : An error occurred, but the cause is unknown
> Unable to start domain test15[9725] Done

I have my own parallel start/destroy test case that I ran during development
of the threading code to test it. It caught quite a few bugs, and I had it
run 8 threads for approximately 80,000  start/stops in total. I'm not seeing
any errors running it with current GIT though.

I've also tested your demo program with 8 threads / VMs, and it succeeeded
without any problems.

Appending my demo program - you don't need to do any setup to run it,
it will auto-create the storage & use transient guests

Daniel
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-------------- next part --------------
#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
#include <libvirt/virterror.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

#define NUM_THREADS 8
#define MAX_VMS 1000

const char *XML = "<domain type='kvm'>"
"  <name>vm%06d</name>"
"  <memory unit='KiB'>220160</memory>"
"  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>60000</currentMemory>"
"  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>"
"  <os>"
"    <type arch='x86_64'>hvm</type>"
"    <boot dev='hd'/>"
"  </os>"
"  <features>"
"    <acpi/>"
"  </features>"
"  <devices>"
"    <emulator>/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>"
"    <disk type='file' device='disk'>"
"      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>"
"      <source file='/home/berrange/VirtualMachines/vm%06d.qcow'/>"
"      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>"
"      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>"
"      <shareable/>"
"    </disk>"
"    <console type='pty'>"
"      <target type='serial' port='0'/>"
"    </console>"
"    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>"
"    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0'/>"
"  </devices>"
"</domain>";


static pid_t gettid(void)
{
  return syscall(SYS_gettid);
}

static void *one_thread(void *arg)
{
  int i;
  virConnectPtr conn = arg;
  virConnectRef(conn);
  char *cmd;
  if (asprintf(&cmd, "qemu-img create -f qcow2 /home/berrange/VirtualMachines/vm%06d.qcow 1G", gettid()) < 0)
    abort();

  if (system(cmd)  != 0)
    abort();

  char *xml;
  if (asprintf(&xml, XML, gettid(), gettid()) < 0)
    abort();

  for (i = 0 ; i < MAX_VMS ; i++) {
    fprintf(stderr, "%d: %d of %d \n", gettid(), i, MAX_VMS);
    virDomainPtr dom = virDomainCreateXML(conn, xml, VIR_DOMAIN_START_AUTODESTROY);

    virDomainDestroy(dom);

  }
  free(xml);
  free(cmd);
  virConnectClose(conn);
  return NULL;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  virConnectPtr conn;
  int ret = -1;
  pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
  int i;

  if (!(conn = virConnectOpen("qemu:///session")))
    goto error;

  for (i = 0 ; i < NUM_THREADS ; i++) {
    if (pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL,
		       one_thread, conn) < 0)
      goto error;
  }

  for (i = 0 ; i < NUM_THREADS ; i++) {
    if (pthread_join(threads[i], NULL) < 0)
      goto error;
  }

  ret = 0;
 error:
  if (ret != 0) {
    virErrorPtr err = virGetLastError();
    fprintf(stderr, "error: %s\n", err ? err->message : "<unknown>");
  }
  if (conn)
    virConnectClose(conn);
  exit(ret);
}


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