Hi Michael, On 7/2/2020 3:21 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:51:21PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote: >> This series enhances Linux Vhost support to enable SoC-to-SoC >> communication over MMIO. This series enables rpmsg communication between >> two SoCs using both PCIe RC<->EP and HOST1-NTB-HOST2 >> >> 1) Modify vhost to use standard Linux driver model >> 2) Add support in vring to access virtqueue over MMIO >> 3) Add vhost client driver for rpmsg >> 4) Add PCIe RC driver (uses virtio) and PCIe EP driver (uses vhost) for >> rpmsg communication between two SoCs connected to each other >> 5) Add NTB Virtio driver and NTB Vhost driver for rpmsg communication >> between two SoCs connected via NTB >> 6) Add configfs to configure the components >> >> UseCase1 : >> >> VHOST RPMSG VIRTIO RPMSG >> + + >> | | >> | | >> | | >> | | >> +-----v------+ +------v-------+ >> | Linux | | Linux | >> | Endpoint | | Root Complex | >> | <-----------------> | >> | | | | >> | SOC1 | | SOC2 | >> +------------+ +--------------+ >> >> UseCase 2: >> >> VHOST RPMSG VIRTIO RPMSG >> + + >> | | >> | | >> | | >> | | >> +------v------+ +------v------+ >> | | | | >> | HOST1 | | HOST2 | >> | | | | >> +------^------+ +------^------+ >> | | >> | | >> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | +------v------+ +------v------+ | >> | | | | | | >> | | EP | | EP | | >> | | CONTROLLER1 | | CONTROLLER2 | | >> | | <-----------------------------------> | | >> | | | | | | >> | | | | | | >> | | | SoC With Multiple EP Instances | | | >> | | | (Configured using NTB Function) | | | >> | +-------------+ +-------------+ | >> +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> >> Software Layering: >> >> The high-level SW layering should look something like below. This series >> adds support only for RPMSG VHOST, however something similar should be >> done for net and scsi. With that any vhost device (PCI, NTB, Platform >> device, user) can use any of the vhost client driver. >> >> >> +----------------+ +-----------+ +------------+ +----------+ >> | RPMSG VHOST | | NET VHOST | | SCSI VHOST | | X | >> +-------^--------+ +-----^-----+ +-----^------+ +----^-----+ >> | | | | >> | | | | >> | | | | >> +-----------v-----------------v--------------v--------------v----------+ >> | VHOST CORE | >> +--------^---------------^--------------------^------------------^-----+ >> | | | | >> | | | | >> | | | | >> +--------v-------+ +----v------+ +----------v----------+ +----v-----+ >> | PCI EPF VHOST | | NTB VHOST | |PLATFORM DEVICE VHOST| | X | >> +----------------+ +-----------+ +---------------------+ +----------+ >> >> This was initially proposed here [1] >> >> [1] -> https://lore.kernel.org/r/2cf00ec4-1ed6-f66e-6897-006d1a5b6390@xxxxxx > > > I find this very interesting. A huge patchset so will take a bit > to review, but I certainly plan to do that. Thanks! Great to hear! Thanks in advance for reviewing! Regards Kishon > >> >> Kishon Vijay Abraham I (22): >> vhost: Make _feature_ bits a property of vhost device >> vhost: Introduce standard Linux driver model in VHOST >> vhost: Add ops for the VHOST driver to configure VHOST device >> vringh: Add helpers to access vring in MMIO >> vhost: Add MMIO helpers for operations on vhost virtqueue >> vhost: Introduce configfs entry for configuring VHOST >> virtio_pci: Use request_threaded_irq() instead of request_irq() >> rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: Disable receive virtqueue callback when >> reading messages >> rpmsg: Introduce configfs entry for configuring rpmsg >> rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: Add Address Service Notification support >> rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: Move generic rpmsg structure to >> rpmsg_internal.h >> virtio: Add ops to allocate and free buffer >> rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: Use virtio_alloc_buffer() and >> virtio_free_buffer() >> rpmsg: Add VHOST based remote processor messaging bus >> samples/rpmsg: Setup delayed work to send message >> samples/rpmsg: Wait for address to be bound to rpdev for sending >> message >> rpmsg.txt: Add Documentation to configure rpmsg using configfs >> virtio_pci: Add VIRTIO driver for VHOST on Configurable PCIe Endpoint >> device >> PCI: endpoint: Add EP function driver to provide VHOST interface >> NTB: Add a new NTB client driver to implement VIRTIO functionality >> NTB: Add a new NTB client driver to implement VHOST functionality >> NTB: Describe the ntb_virtio and ntb_vhost client in the documentation >> >> Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst | 11 + >> Documentation/rpmsg.txt | 56 + >> drivers/ntb/Kconfig | 18 + >> drivers/ntb/Makefile | 2 + >> drivers/ntb/ntb_vhost.c | 776 +++++++++++ >> drivers/ntb/ntb_virtio.c | 853 ++++++++++++ >> drivers/ntb/ntb_virtio.h | 56 + >> drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/Kconfig | 11 + >> drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/Makefile | 1 + >> .../pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vhost.c | 1144 ++++++++++++++++ >> drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig | 10 + >> drivers/rpmsg/Makefile | 3 +- >> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_cfs.c | 394 ++++++ >> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_core.c | 7 + >> drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_internal.h | 136 ++ >> drivers/rpmsg/vhost_rpmsg_bus.c | 1151 +++++++++++++++++ >> drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 184 ++- >> drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 1 + >> drivers/vhost/Makefile | 2 +- >> drivers/vhost/net.c | 10 +- >> drivers/vhost/scsi.c | 24 +- >> drivers/vhost/test.c | 17 +- >> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 +- >> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 730 ++++++++++- >> drivers/vhost/vhost_cfs.c | 341 +++++ >> drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 332 +++++ >> drivers/vhost/vsock.c | 20 +- >> drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 9 + >> drivers/virtio/Makefile | 1 + >> drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 25 +- >> drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_epf.c | 670 ++++++++++ >> include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 6 + >> include/linux/rpmsg.h | 6 + >> {drivers/vhost => include/linux}/vhost.h | 132 +- >> include/linux/virtio.h | 3 + >> include/linux/virtio_config.h | 42 + >> include/linux/vringh.h | 46 + >> samples/rpmsg/rpmsg_client_sample.c | 32 +- >> tools/virtio/virtio_test.c | 2 +- >> 39 files changed, 7083 insertions(+), 183 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/ntb_vhost.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/ntb_virtio.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/ntb_virtio.h >> create mode 100644 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vhost.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_cfs.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/vhost_rpmsg_bus.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/vhost_cfs.c >> create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_epf.c >> rename {drivers/vhost => include/linux}/vhost.h (66%) >> >> -- >> 2.17.1 >> >