On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:05 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:22 PM Wu Zongyong <wuzongyong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This series implements the vDPA driver for legacy virtio-pci device. > > Currently we already have the vDPA driver for modern virtio-pci device > > only, but there are some legacy virtio-pci devices conforming to the > > virtio-pci specifications of 0.9.x or older versions. For example, > > ENI(Elastic Network Interface) of Alibaba ECS baremetal instance is a > > hardware virtio network device which follows the Virtio PCI Card 0.9.5 > > Draft specification. Such legacy virtio-pci devices have some > > inconsistent behaviour with modern virtio-pci devices, so some common > > codes are split out and modern device specific codes are moved to a > > separated file. > > What worries me a little bit are: > > 1) vDPA requires IOMMU_PLATFORM to be supported by the device to work, > if I understand ENI correctly, it's a legacy device so it can't > support ACCESS_PLATFORM. Or is it a legacy device that supports > ACCESS_PLATFORM implicitly. > 2) vDPA tries to present a 1.0 device, in this case the behavior could > be ruled by the spec. If we tries to present an 1.0 device on top of > legacy device we may suffer a lot of issues: > > - endian issue: 1.0 use le but legacy may use native endian > - queue_enable semantic which is missed in the legacy > - virtqueue size, as you mentioned below > > I guess what the device(ENI) supports are: > > 1) semantic of ACCESS_PLATFORM without a feature > 2) little endian > 3) but a legacy device > > So I think it might be better: > > 1) introduce the library for legacy as you did in this patch > 2) having a dedicated ENI vDPA driver > > 3) live migration support, though it was not supported by the spec > yet, but we are working on the support, and we know legacy device can I meant "can't" actually. Thanks > support this. > > Thanks > > > > > For legacy devices, it is not supported to negotiate the virtqueue size > > by the specification. So a new callback get_vq_num_unchangeable is > > introduced to indicate user not to try change the virtqueue size of the > > legacy vdpa device. For example, QEMU should not allocate memory for > > virtqueue according to the properties tx_queue_size and rx_queue_size if > > we use legacy virtio-pci device as the vhost-vdpa backend. Instead, QEMU > > should use the new callback get_vq_num_unchangeable first to check if > > the vdpa device support to change virtqueue size. If not, QEMU should > > call the callback get_vq_num_max to get the static virtqueue size then > > allocate the same size memory for the virtqueue. > > > > This series have been tested with the ENI in Alibaba ECS baremetal > > instance. > > > > These patches may under consideration, welcome for comments. > > > > > > Wu Zongyong (6): > > virtio-pci: introduce legacy device module > > vdpa: fix typo > > vp_vdpa: add vq irq offloading support > > vp_vdpa: split out reusable and device specific codes to separate file > > vdpa: add get_vq_num_unchangeable callback in vdpa_config_ops > > vp_vdpa: introduce legacy virtio pci driver > > > > drivers/vdpa/Kconfig | 7 + > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/Makefile | 3 + > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c | 8 + > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_common.c | 220 ++++++++++++++ > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_common.h | 67 +++++ > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_legacy.c | 346 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > > drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_modern.c | 327 +++++++++++++++++++++ > > drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 19 ++ > > drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 10 + > > drivers/virtio/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 10 +- > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 9 +- > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 101 ++----- > > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy_dev.c | 220 ++++++++++++++ > > drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 5 +- > > include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 +- > > include/linux/virtio_pci_legacy.h | 44 +++ > > include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 2 + > > 18 files changed, 1320 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_common.c > > create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_common.h > > create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_legacy.c > > create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa_modern.c > > create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy_dev.c > > create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_pci_legacy.h > > > > -- > > 2.31.1 > > _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
