Re: [PATCH 0/6] vDPA driver for legacy virtio-pci device

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 4:12 PM Wu Zongyong <wuzongyong@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 11:05:06AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:22 PM Wu Zongyong <wuzongyong@linux.alibaba.com> 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
>
> Writting the queue_address is regarded as enable queue in the legacy.
> Right?

It's implementation specific details that virtio spec can't mandate.

E.g if your ENI behaves like this, you can delay the queue_address
write to hardware until set_vq_ready() in the ENI vDPA driver.

Thanks

>
> > - 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
> > support this.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> I agree.
> It's better to implement a dedicated vDPA driver for ENI only. ENI is
> not a standard legacy virtio-pci device.
>
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
>

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