From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:37:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191015143720.GA13108@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d12ad8f-8137-e07d-d735-da59a326e8ed@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:37:17AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
> On 2019/10/15 上午1:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:15:50PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > There are hardware that can do virtio datapath offloading while having
> > > its own control path. This path tries to implement a mdev based
> > > unified API to support using kernel virtio driver to drive those
> > > devices. This is done by introducing a new mdev transport for virtio
> > > (virtio_mdev) and register itself as a new kind of mdev driver. Then
> > > it provides a unified way for kernel virtio driver to talk with mdev
> > > device implementation.
> > >
> > > Though the series only contains kernel driver support, the goal is to
> > > make the transport generic enough to support userspace drivers. This
> > > means vhost-mdev[1] could be built on top as well by resuing the
> > > transport.
> > >
> > > A sample driver is also implemented which simulate a virito-net
> > > loopback ethernet device on top of vringh + workqueue. This could be
> > > used as a reference implementation for real hardware driver.
> > >
> > > Consider mdev framework only support VFIO device and driver right now,
> > > this series also extend it to support other types. This is done
> > > through introducing class id to the device and pairing it with
> > > id_talbe claimed by the driver. On top, this seris also decouple
> > > device specific parents ops out of the common ones.
> > I was curious so I took a quick look and posted comments.
> >
> > I guess this driver runs inside the guest since it registers virtio
> > devices?
>
>
> It could run in either guest or host. But the main focus is to run in the
> host then we can use virtio drivers in containers.
>
>
> >
> > If this is used with physical PCI devices that support datapath
> > offloading then how are physical devices presented to the guest without
> > SR-IOV?
>
>
> We will do control path meditation through vhost-mdev[1] and vhost-vfio[2].
> Then we will present a full virtio compatible ethernet device for guest.
>
> SR-IOV is not a must, any mdev device that implements the API defined in
> patch 5 can be used by this framework.
What I'm trying to understand is: if you want to present a virtio-pci
device to the guest (e.g. using vhost-mdev or vhost-vfio), then how is
that related to this patch series?
Does this mean this patch series is useful mostly for presenting virtio
devices to containers or the host?
Stefan
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-11 8:15 [PATCH V3 0/7] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support Jason Wang
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 1/7] mdev: class id support Jason Wang
2019-10-15 10:26 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-10-15 12:12 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-15 16:38 ` Alex Williamson
2019-10-16 4:38 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-16 4:57 ` Parav Pandit
2019-10-16 10:37 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-17 8:27 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 2/7] mdev: bus uevent support Jason Wang
2019-10-15 10:27 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-10-15 12:13 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-16 5:06 ` Parav Pandit
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 3/7] modpost: add support for mdev class id Jason Wang
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 4/7] mdev: introduce device specific ops Jason Wang
2019-10-15 10:41 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-10-15 12:17 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-15 17:26 ` Alex Williamson
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 5/7] mdev: introduce virtio device and its device ops Jason Wang
2019-10-14 17:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-10-15 3:27 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 6/7] virtio: introduce a mdev based transport Jason Wang
2019-10-14 17:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-10-15 3:29 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-11 8:15 ` [PATCH V3 7/7] docs: sample driver to demonstrate how to implement virtio-mdev framework Jason Wang
2019-10-14 17:49 ` [PATCH V3 0/7] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-10-15 3:37 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-15 14:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2019-10-17 1:42 ` Jason Wang
2019-10-17 9:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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