Hyper-V is adding multiple low speed "speciality" synthetic devices. Instead of writing a new kernel-level VMBus driver for each device, make the devices accessible to user space through UIO-based uio_hv_generic driver. Each device can then be supported by a user space driver. This approach optimizes the development process and provides flexibility to user space applications to control the key interactions with the VMBus ring buffer. The new synthetic devices are low speed devices that don't support VMBus monitor bits, and so they must use vmbus_setevent() to notify the host of ring buffer updates. These new devices also have smaller ring buffer sizes which requires to add support for variable ring buffer sizes. Moreover, this patch series adds a new implementation of the fcopy application that uses the new UIO driver. The older fcopy driver and application will be phased out gradually. Development of other similar userspace drivers is still underway. Efforts have been made previously to implement this solution earlier. Here are the discussions related to those attempts: Attempt 1: Upgrade uio_hv_generic to cater to Underhill slow devices. But this was rejected due to use of module parameters. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1665575806-27990-1-git-send-email-ssengar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Attempt 2: Enable interrupt for low speed VMBus devices in uio_hv_generic and was rejected due to unavailability of userspace driver for it. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y05bdCWBs0miLjOu@xxxxxxxxx/ Attempt 3: Wrote a new UIO driver but was rejected due to its complexity. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1691132996-11706-1-git-send-email-ssengar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [V2] - Went through internal review, got few reviewed-by from Long Li. - Added more details in cover letter for previous attempts. - Added more details in commit messages. - Added comments for preferred ring sizes and there values. - Removed need_sign arg from vmbus_txbr_write - Change (4 * 4096) to 0x4000 for ring buffer size. - Removed some unnecessary type casting. - Removed rte_smp_rwmb as its duplicate of rte_compiler_barrier. - Added more comment for rte_compiler_barrierx. - Mentioned in file copyright header that this code is copied. - Changed the print from "Registration failed" to "Signal to host failed". - Fixed mask for rx buffer interrupt to 0 before waiting for interrupt. Saurabh Sengar (7): Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add utility function for querying ring size uio_hv_generic: Query the ringbuffer size for device uio_hv_generic: Enable interrupt for low speed VMBus devices tools: hv: Add vmbus_bufring tools: hv: Add new fcopy application based on uio driver Drivers: hv: Remove fcopy driver uio_hv_generic: Remove use of PAGE_SIZE drivers/hv/Makefile | 2 +- drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 15 +- drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c | 427 ---------------------------- drivers/hv/hv_util.c | 12 - drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 5 + drivers/uio/uio_hv_generic.c | 19 +- include/linux/hyperv.h | 2 + tools/hv/Build | 3 +- tools/hv/Makefile | 10 +- tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c | 266 ------------------ tools/hv/hv_fcopy_uio_daemon.c | 490 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/hv/vmbus_bufring.c | 318 +++++++++++++++++++++ tools/hv/vmbus_bufring.h | 158 +++++++++++ 13 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 725 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c delete mode 100644 tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c create mode 100644 tools/hv/hv_fcopy_uio_daemon.c create mode 100644 tools/hv/vmbus_bufring.c create mode 100644 tools/hv/vmbus_bufring.h -- 2.34.1
