From 932d0761f1f473638a38614796bd14939cdd6215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:55:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 01/21] migration: stop compressing page in migration thread

RH-Author: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20180801135522.11658-2-dgilbert@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 81577
O-Subject: [qemu-kvm RHEL8/virt212 PATCH 01/18] migration: stop compressing page in migration thread
Bugzilla: 1594384
RH-Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@tencent.com>

As compression is a heavy work, do not do it in migration thread,
instead, we post it out as a normal page

Reviewed-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <20180330075128.26919-2-xiaoguangrong@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 263a289ae61c8344a417a95b0142650fdff3af56)
Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
---
 migration/ram.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
index 00c06b5..f27038a 100644
--- a/migration/ram.c
+++ b/migration/ram.c
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ static int ram_save_compressed_page(RAMState *rs, PageSearchStatus *pss,
     int pages = -1;
     uint64_t bytes_xmit = 0;
     uint8_t *p;
-    int ret, blen;
+    int ret;
     RAMBlock *block = pss->block;
     ram_addr_t offset = pss->page << TARGET_PAGE_BITS;
 
@@ -1168,23 +1168,23 @@ static int ram_save_compressed_page(RAMState *rs, PageSearchStatus *pss,
         if (block != rs->last_sent_block) {
             flush_compressed_data(rs);
             pages = save_zero_page(rs, block, offset);
-            if (pages == -1) {
-                /* Make sure the first page is sent out before other pages */
-                bytes_xmit = save_page_header(rs, rs->f, block, offset |
-                                              RAM_SAVE_FLAG_COMPRESS_PAGE);
-                blen = qemu_put_compression_data(rs->f, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
-                                                 migrate_compress_level());
-                if (blen > 0) {
-                    ram_counters.transferred += bytes_xmit + blen;
-                    ram_counters.normal++;
-                    pages = 1;
-                } else {
-                    qemu_file_set_error(rs->f, blen);
-                    error_report("compressed data failed!");
-                }
-            }
             if (pages > 0) {
                 ram_release_pages(block->idstr, offset, pages);
+            } else {
+                /*
+                 * Make sure the first page is sent out before other pages.
+                 *
+                 * we post it as normal page as compression will take much
+                 * CPU resource.
+                 */
+                ram_counters.transferred += save_page_header(rs, rs->f, block,
+                                                offset | RAM_SAVE_FLAG_PAGE);
+                qemu_put_buffer_async(rs->f, p, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE,
+                                      migrate_release_ram() &
+                                      migration_in_postcopy());
+                ram_counters.transferred += TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
+                ram_counters.normal++;
+                pages = 1;
             }
         } else {
             pages = save_zero_page(rs, block, offset);
-- 
1.8.3.1