migration: move handle of zero page to the thread

Detecting zero page is not a light work, moving it to the thread to
speed the main thread up, btw, handling ram_release_pages() for the
zero page is moved to the thread as well

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

migration/ram.c

@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ typedef struct PageSearchStatus PageSearchStatus;
 struct CompressParam {
     bool done;
     bool quit;
+    bool zero_page;
     QEMUFile *file;
     QemuMutex mutex;
     QemuCond cond;
@@ -382,7 +383,7 @@ static QemuThread *decompress_threads;
 static QemuMutex decomp_done_lock;
 static QemuCond decomp_done_cond;
 
-static void do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, z_stream *stream, RAMBlock *block,
+static bool do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, z_stream *stream, RAMBlock *block,
                                  ram_addr_t offset, uint8_t *source_buf);
 
 static void *do_data_compress(void *opaque)
@@ -390,6 +391,7 @@ static void *do_data_compress(void *opaque)
     CompressParam *param = opaque;
     RAMBlock *block;
     ram_addr_t offset;
+    bool zero_page;
 
     qemu_mutex_lock(&param->mutex);
     while (!param->quit) {
@@ -399,11 +401,12 @@ static void *do_data_compress(void *opaque)
             param->block = NULL;
             qemu_mutex_unlock(&param->mutex);
 
-            do_compress_ram_page(param->file, &param->stream, block, offset,
+            zero_page = do_compress_ram_page(param->file, &param->stream,
-                                 param->originbuf);
+                                             block, offset, param->originbuf);
 
             qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_done_lock);
             param->done = true;
+            param->zero_page = zero_page;
             qemu_cond_signal(&comp_done_cond);
             qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_done_lock);
 
@@ -1849,13 +1852,19 @@ static int ram_save_multifd_page(RAMState *rs, RAMBlock *block,
     return 1;
 }
 
-static void do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, z_stream *stream, RAMBlock *block,
+static bool do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, z_stream *stream, RAMBlock *block,
                                  ram_addr_t offset, uint8_t *source_buf)
 {
     RAMState *rs = ram_state;
     uint8_t *p = block->host + (offset & TARGET_PAGE_MASK);
+    bool zero_page = false;
     int ret;
 
+    if (save_zero_page_to_file(rs, f, block, offset)) {
+        zero_page = true;
+        goto exit;
+    }
+
     save_page_header(rs, f, block, offset | RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS_PAGE);
 
     /*
@@ -1868,10 +1877,21 @@ static void do_compress_ram_page(QEMUFile *f, z_stream *stream, RAMBlock *block,
     if (ret < 0) {
         qemu_file_set_error(migrate_get_current()->to_dst_file, ret);
         error_report("compressed data failed!");
-        return;
+        return false;
     }
 
+exit:
     ram_release_pages(block->idstr, offset & TARGET_PAGE_MASK, 1);
+    return zero_page;
+}
+
+static void
+update_compress_thread_counts(const CompressParam *param, int bytes_xmit)
+{
+    if (param->zero_page) {
+        ram_counters.duplicate++;
+    }
+    ram_counters.transferred += bytes_xmit;
 }
 
 static void flush_compressed_data(RAMState *rs)
@@ -1895,7 +1915,12 @@ static void flush_compressed_data(RAMState *rs)
         qemu_mutex_lock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
         if (!comp_param[idx].quit) {
             len = qemu_put_qemu_file(rs->f, comp_param[idx].file);
-            ram_counters.transferred += len;
+            /*
+             * it's safe to fetch zero_page without holding comp_done_lock
+             * as there is no further request submitted to the thread,
+             * i.e, the thread should be waiting for a request at this point.
+             */
+            update_compress_thread_counts(&comp_param[idx], len);
         }
         qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
     }
@@ -1926,7 +1951,7 @@ retry:
             qemu_cond_signal(&comp_param[idx].cond);
             qemu_mutex_unlock(&comp_param[idx].mutex);
             pages = 1;
-            ram_counters.transferred += bytes_xmit;
+            update_compress_thread_counts(&comp_param[idx], bytes_xmit);
             break;
         }
     }
@@ -2200,6 +2225,39 @@ static bool save_page_use_compression(RAMState *rs)
     return false;
 }
 
+/*
+ * try to compress the page before posting it out, return true if the page
+ * has been properly handled by compression, otherwise needs other
+ * paths to handle it
+ */
+static bool save_compress_page(RAMState *rs, RAMBlock *block, ram_addr_t offset)
+{
+    if (!save_page_use_compression(rs)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * When starting the process of a new block, the first page of
+     * the block should be sent out before other pages in the same
+     * block, and all the pages in last block should have been sent
+     * out, keeping this order is important, because the 'cont' flag
+     * is used to avoid resending the block name.
+     *
+     * We post the fist page as normal page as compression will take
+     * much CPU resource.
+     */
+    if (block != rs->last_sent_block) {
+        flush_compressed_data(rs);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    if (compress_page_with_multi_thread(rs, block, offset) > 0) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
+
 /**
  * ram_save_target_page: save one target page
  *
@@ -2220,15 +2278,8 @@ static int ram_save_target_page(RAMState *rs, PageSearchStatus *pss,
         return res;
     }
 
-    /*
+    if (save_compress_page(rs, block, offset)) {
-     * When starting the process of a new block, the first page of
+        return 1;
-     * the block should be sent out before other pages in the same
-     * block, and all the pages in last block should have been sent
-     * out, keeping this order is important, because the 'cont' flag
-     * is used to avoid resending the block name.
-     */
-    if (block != rs->last_sent_block && save_page_use_compression(rs)) {
-            flush_compressed_data(rs);
     }
 
     res = save_zero_page(rs, block, offset);
@@ -2246,17 +2297,10 @@ static int ram_save_target_page(RAMState *rs, PageSearchStatus *pss,
     }
 
     /*
-     * Make sure the first page is sent out before other pages.
+     * do not use multifd for compression as the first page in the new
-     *
+     * block should be posted out before sending the compressed page
-     * we post it as normal page as compression will take much
-     * CPU resource.
      */
-    if (block == rs->last_sent_block && save_page_use_compression(rs)) {
+    if (!save_page_use_compression(rs) && migrate_use_multifd()) {
-        res = compress_page_with_multi_thread(rs, block, offset);
-        if (res > 0) {
-            return res;
-        }
-    } else if (migrate_use_multifd()) {
         return ram_save_multifd_page(rs, block, offset);
     }