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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, stefanha@redhat.com,
	sweil@redhat.com, swhiteho@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/52] virtio-fs: Map cache using the values from the capabilities
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:15:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213121548.GN2313@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96d9ea85-ddf3-3331-77ce-124475b26da4@redhat.com>

* David Hildenbrand (david@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 13.12.18 11:00, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * David Hildenbrand (david@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> On 13.12.18 10:13, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> >>> * David Hildenbrand (david@redhat.com) wrote:
> >>>> On 10.12.18 18:12, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >>>>> Instead of assuming we had the fixed bar for the cache, use the
> >>>>> value from the capabilities.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>>  fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> >>>>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> >>>>> index 60d496c16841..55bac1465536 100644
> >>>>> --- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> >>>>> +++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> >>>>> @@ -14,11 +14,6 @@
> >>>>>  #include <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> >>>>>  #include "fuse_i.h"
> >>>>>  
> >>>>> -enum {
> >>>>> -	/* PCI BAR number of the virtio-fs DAX window */
> >>>>> -	VIRTIO_FS_WINDOW_BAR = 2,
> >>>>> -};
> >>>>> -
> >>>>>  /* List of virtio-fs device instances and a lock for the list */
> >>>>>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(virtio_fs_mutex);
> >>>>>  static LIST_HEAD(virtio_fs_instances);
> >>>>> @@ -518,7 +513,7 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> >>>>>  	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
> >>>>>  	struct pci_dev *pci_dev;
> >>>>>  	phys_addr_t phys_addr;
> >>>>> -	size_t len;
> >>>>> +	size_t bar_len;
> >>>>>  	int ret;
> >>>>>  	u8 have_cache, cache_bar;
> >>>>>  	u64 cache_offset, cache_len;
> >>>>> @@ -551,17 +546,13 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> >>>>>          }
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>  	/* TODO handle case where device doesn't expose BAR? */
> >>>>
> >>>> For virtio-pmem we decided to not go via BARs as this would effectively
> >>>> make it only usable for virtio-pci implementers. Instead, we are going
> >>>> to export the applicable physical device region directly (e.g.
> >>>> phys_start, phys_size in virtio config), so it is decoupled from PCI
> >>>> details. Doing the same for virtio-fs would allow e.g. also virtio-ccw
> >>>> to make eventually use of this.
> >>>
> >>> That makes it a very odd looking PCI device;  I can see that with
> >>> virtio-pmem it makes some sense, given that it's job is to expose
> >>> arbitrary chunks of memory.
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>
> >> Well, the fact that your are
> >>
> >> - including <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> >> - adding pci related code
> >>
> >> in/to fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> >>
> >> tells me that these properties might be better communicated on the
> >> virtio layer, not on the PCI layer.
> >>
> >> Or do you really want to glue virtio-fs to virtio-pci for all eternity?
> > 
> > No, these need cleaning up; and the split within the bar
> > is probably going to change to be communicated via virtio layer
> > rather than pci capabilities.  However, I don't want to make our PCI
> > device look odd, just to make portability to non-PCI devices - so it's
> > right to make the split appropriately, but still to use PCI bars
> > for what they were designed for.
> > 
> > Dave
> 
> Let's discuss after the cleanup. In general I am not convinced this is
> the right thing to do. Using virtio-pci for anything else than pure
> transport smells like bad design to me (well, I am no virtio expert
> after all ;) ). No matter what PCI bars were designed for. If we can't
> get the same running with e.g. virtio-ccw or virtio-whatever, it is
> broken by design (or an addon that is tightly glued to virtio-pci, if
> that is the general idea).

I'm sure we can find alternatives for virtio-*, so I wouldn't expect
it to be glued to virtio-pci.

Dave

> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David / dhildenb
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-10 17:12 [PATCH 00/52] [RFC] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 01/52] fuse: add skeleton virtio_fs.ko module Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 02/52] fuse: add probe/remove virtio driver Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 03/52] fuse: rely on mutex_unlock() barrier instead of fput() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 04/52] fuse: extract fuse_fill_super_common() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 05/52] virtio_fs: get mount working Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 06/52] fuse: export fuse_end_request() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 07/52] fuse: export fuse_len_args() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 08/52] fuse: add fuse_iqueue_ops callbacks Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 09/52] fuse: process requests queues Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 10/52] fuse: export fuse_get_unique() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 11/52] fuse: implement FUSE_FORGET for virtio-fs Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 12/52] virtio_fs: Set up dax_device Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 13/52] dax: remove block device dependencies Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 14/52] fuse: add fuse_conn->dax_dev field Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 15/52] fuse: map virtio_fs DAX window BAR Vivek Goyal
2018-12-12 16:37   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-12-13 11:55     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-12-13 16:06   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-13 19:55   ` Dan Williams
2018-12-13 20:09     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-12-13 20:15       ` Dan Williams
2018-12-13 20:40         ` Vivek Goyal
2018-12-13 21:18           ` Vivek Goyal
2018-12-14 10:09             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 16/52] virtio-fs: Add VIRTIO_PCI_CAP_SHARED_MEMORY_CFG and utility to find them Vivek Goyal
2018-12-12 16:36   ` [PATCH] virtio-fs: fix semicolon.cocci warnings kbuild test robot
2018-12-12 16:36   ` [PATCH 16/52] virtio-fs: Add VIRTIO_PCI_CAP_SHARED_MEMORY_CFG and utility to find them kbuild test robot
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 17/52] virtio-fs: Retrieve shm capabilities for cache Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 18/52] virtio-fs: Map cache using the values from the capabilities Vivek Goyal
2018-12-13  9:10   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-13  9:13     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-12-13  9:34       ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-13 10:00         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-12-13 11:26           ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-13 12:15             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2018-12-13 12:24               ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-13 12:38                 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-12-14 13:44                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-12-14 13:50                     ` Cornelia Huck
2018-12-14 14:06                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-12-17 11:25                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-12-17 10:53                     ` David Hildenbrand
2018-12-17 14:56                       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-12-18 17:13                         ` Cornelia Huck
2018-12-18 17:25                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-01-02 10:24                             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-17  0:33   ` Liu Bo
2019-03-20 10:42     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-03-17  0:35   ` [PATCH] virtio-fs: fix multiple tag support Liu Bo
2019-03-19 20:26     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-03-20  2:04       ` Liu Bo
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 19/52] virito-fs: Make dax optional Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 20/52] Limit number of pages returned by direct_access() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 21/52] fuse: Introduce fuse_dax_mapping Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 22/52] Create a list of free memory ranges Vivek Goyal
2018-12-11 17:44   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-15 19:22   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 23/52] fuse: simplify fuse_fill_super_common() calling Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 24/52] fuse: Introduce setupmapping/removemapping commands Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 25/52] Introduce interval tree basic data structures Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 26/52] fuse: Implement basic DAX read/write support commands Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 27/52] fuse: Maintain a list of busy elements Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 28/52] Do fallocate() to grow file before mapping for file growing writes Vivek Goyal
2018-12-11  6:13   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-11  6:20   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 29/52] fuse: add DAX mmap support Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 30/52] fuse: delete dentry if timeout is zero Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 31/52] dax: Pass dax_dev to dax_writeback_mapping_range() Vivek Goyal
2018-12-11  6:12   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-11 17:38   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 32/52] fuse: Define dax address space operations Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 33/52] fuse, dax: Take ->i_mmap_sem lock during dax page fault Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 34/52] fuse: Add logic to free up a memory range Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 35/52] fuse: Add logic to do direct reclaim of memory Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 36/52] fuse: Kick worker when free memory drops below 20% of total ranges Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 37/52] fuse: multiplex cached/direct_io/dax file operations Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 38/52] Dispatch FORGET requests later instead of dropping them Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 39/52] Release file in process context Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 40/52] fuse: Do not block on inode lock while freeing memory range Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 41/52] fuse: Reschedule dax free work if too many EAGAIN attempts Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 42/52] fuse: Wait for memory ranges to become free Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 43/52] fuse: Take inode lock for dax inode truncation Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 44/52] fuse: Clear setuid bit even in direct I/O path Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 45/52] virtio: Free fuse devices on umount Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 46/52] virtio-fs: Retrieve shm capabilities for version table Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 47/52] virtio-fs: Map using the values from the capabilities Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 48/52] virtio-fs: pass version table pointer to fuse Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 49/52] fuse: don't crash if version table is NULL Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 50/52] fuse: add shared version support (virtio-fs only) Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 51/52] fuse: shared version cleanups Vivek Goyal
2018-12-10 17:13 ` [PATCH 52/52] fuse: fix fuse_permission() for the default_permissions case Vivek Goyal
2018-12-19 21:25   ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-11 12:54 ` [PATCH 00/52] [RFC] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-12-12 20:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-12-12 21:22   ` Vivek Goyal
2019-02-12 15:56 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-12 18:57   ` Vivek Goyal

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