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* [PATCH RFC v7 00/14] vhost: ring format independence
@ 2020-06-10 11:35 Michael S. Tsirkin
  2020-06-10 11:35 ` [PATCH RFC v7 01/14] vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct Michael S. Tsirkin
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  0 siblings, 14 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Michael S. Tsirkin @ 2020-06-10 11:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: kvm, virtualization, netdev, Jason Wang, eperezma

This intentionally leaves "fixup" changes separate - hopefully
that is enough to fix vhost-net crashes reported here,
but it helps me keep track of what changed.
I will naturally squash them later when we are done.


This adds infrastructure required for supporting
multiple ring formats.

The idea is as follows: we convert descriptors to an
independent format first, and process that converting to
iov later.

Used ring is similar: we fetch into an independent struct first,
convert that to IOV later.

The point is that we have a tight loop that fetches
descriptors, which is good for cache utilization.
This will also allow all kind of batching tricks -
e.g. it seems possible to keep SMAP disabled while
we are fetching multiple descriptors.

For used descriptors, this allows keeping track of the buffer length
without need to rescan IOV.

This seems to perform exactly the same as the original
code based on a microbenchmark.
Lightly tested.
More testing would be very much appreciated.

changes from v6:
	- fixes some bugs introduced in v6 and v5

changes from v5:
	- addressed comments by Jason: squashed API changes, fixed up discard

changes from v4:
	- added used descriptor format independence
	- addressed comments by jason
	- fixed a crash detected by the lkp robot.

changes from v3:
        - fixed error handling in case of indirect descriptors
        - add BUG_ON to detect buffer overflow in case of bugs
                in response to comment by Jason Wang
        - minor code tweaks

Changes from v2:
	- fixed indirect descriptor batching
                reported by Jason Wang

Changes from v1:
	- typo fixes


Michael S. Tsirkin (14):
  vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct
  fixup! vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent
    struct
  vhost: use batched get_vq_desc version
  vhost/net: pass net specific struct pointer
  vhost: reorder functions
  vhost: format-independent API for used buffers
  fixup! vhost: format-independent API for used buffers
  fixup! vhost: use batched get_vq_desc version
  vhost/net: convert to new API: heads->bufs
  vhost/net: avoid iov length math
  vhost/test: convert to the buf API
  vhost/scsi: switch to buf APIs
  vhost/vsock: switch to the buf API
  vhost: drop head based APIs

 drivers/vhost/net.c   | 174 +++++++++----------
 drivers/vhost/scsi.c  |  73 ++++----
 drivers/vhost/test.c  |  22 +--
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 378 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h |  44 +++--
 drivers/vhost/vsock.c |  30 ++--
 6 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 282 deletions(-)

-- 
MST


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2020-06-10 11:35 [PATCH RFC v7 00/14] vhost: ring format independence Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:35 ` [PATCH RFC v7 01/14] vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:35 ` [PATCH RFC v7 02/14] fixup! " Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 14:00   ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 03/14] vhost: use batched get_vq_desc version Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 12:37   ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-10 15:13     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 16:18       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-11 11:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-15 16:05           ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-16 15:23             ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-16 22:08               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 14:29   ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-10 15:08     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 15:12       ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 04/14] vhost/net: pass net specific struct pointer Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 15:13   ` Eugenio Pérez
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 05/14] vhost: reorder functions Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 06/14] vhost: format-independent API for used buffers Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 07/14] fixup! " Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 08/14] fixup! vhost: use batched get_vq_desc version Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 09/14] vhost/net: convert to new API: heads->bufs Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 10/14] vhost/net: avoid iov length math Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 11/14] vhost/test: convert to the buf API Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 12/14] vhost/scsi: switch to buf APIs Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 13/14] vhost/vsock: switch to the buf API Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-10 11:36 ` [PATCH RFC v7 14/14] vhost: drop head based APIs Michael S. Tsirkin

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