Re: [RFC V4 PATCH 0/8] Packed ring layout for vhost

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On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:33:30AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018年05月21日 00:25, Wei Xu wrote:
> >On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:32:13PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >>Hi all:
> >>
> >>This RFC implement packed ring layout. The code were tested with
> >>Tiwei's RFC V3 ahttps://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/25/34. Some fixups and
> >>tweaks were needed on top of Tiwei's code to make it run for event
> >>index.
> >Could you please show the change based on Tiwei's code to easy other's
> >test?
> 
> Please try Tiwei's V4 instead of just waiting for the fixup. It should work
> unless you don't try zerocopy and vIOMMU.

Yeah, actually v3 of both you guys works well on my test bed except resetting.

> 
> 
> >>Pktgen reports about 20% improvement on PPS (event index is off). More
> >>testing is ongoing.
> >>
> >>Notes for tester:
> >>
> >>- Start from this version, vhost need qemu co-operation to work
> >>   correctly. Or you can comment out the packed specific code for
> >>   GET/SET_VRING_BASE.
> >Do you mean the code in vhost_virtqueue_start/stop?
> 
> For qemu, probably.
> 
> >Both Tiwei's and your v3
> >work fortunately correctly which should be avoided since the ring should be
> >definitely different.
> 
> I don't understand this, you mean reset work?a

No, currently we have not handled vhost start/stop for split/packed ring relatively
which is what I am doing now.

Wei

> 
> Thanks
> 
> >
> >Wei
> >
> >>Changes from V3:
> >>- Fix math on event idx checking
> >>- Sync last avail wrap counter through GET/SET_VRING_BASE
> >>- remove desc_event prefix in the driver/device structure
> >>
> >>Changes from V2:
> >>- do not use & in checking desc_event_flags
> >>- off should be most significant bit
> >>- remove the workaround of mergeable buffer for dpdk prototype
> >>- id should be in the last descriptor in the chain
> >>- keep _F_WRITE for write descriptor when adding used
> >>- device flags updating should use ADDR_USED type
> >>- return error on unexpected unavail descriptor in a chain
> >>- return false in vhost_ve_avail_empty is descriptor is available
> >>- track last seen avail_wrap_counter
> >>- correctly examine available descriptor in get_indirect_packed()
> >>- vhost_idx_diff should return u16 instead of bool
> >>
> >>Changes from V1:
> >>
> >>- Refactor vhost used elem code to avoid open coding on used elem
> >>- Event suppression support (compile test only).
> >>- Indirect descriptor support (compile test only).
> >>- Zerocopy support.
> >>- vIOMMU support.
> >>- SCSI/VSOCK support (compile test only).
> >>- Fix several bugs
> >>
> >>Jason Wang (8):
> >>   vhost: move get_rx_bufs to vhost.c
> >>   vhost: hide used ring layout from device
> >>   vhost: do not use vring_used_elem
> >>   vhost_net: do not explicitly manipulate vhost_used_elem
> >>   vhost: vhost_put_user() can accept metadata type
> >>   virtio: introduce packed ring defines
> >>   vhost: packed ring support
> >>   vhost: event suppression for packed ring
> >>
> >>  drivers/vhost/net.c                | 136 ++----
> >>  drivers/vhost/scsi.c               |  62 +--
> >>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c              | 861 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h              |  47 +-
> >>  drivers/vhost/vsock.c              |  42 +-
> >>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h |   9 +
> >>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h   |  32 ++
> >>  7 files changed, 928 insertions(+), 261 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>2.7.4
> >>
> 



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