Hi Changpeng,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu, Changpeng <changpeng....@intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 2:40 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Liu, Changpeng <changpeng....@intel.com>; Maxime Coquelin
> <maxime.coque...@redhat.com>; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo....@intel.com>; David
> Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] vhost: add new `rte_vhost_vring_call_nonblock` API
>
> Vhost-user library locks all VQ's access lock when processing
> vring based messages, such as SET_VRING_KICK and SET_VRING_CALL,
> and the data processing thread may already be started, e.g: SPDK
> vhost-blk and vhost-scsi will start the data processing thread
> when one vring is ready, then deadlock may happen when SPDK is
> posting interrupts to VM. Here, we add a new API which allows
> caller to try again later for this case.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 1015
> Fixes: c5736998305d ("vhost: fix missing virtqueue lock protection")
>
> Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng....@intel.com>
> ---
> lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> lib/vhost/version.map | 3 +++
> lib/vhost/vhost.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
For new API, we need to update release_22_11.rst and vhost_lib.rst.
You can refer to
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221013092708.4922-2-xuan.d...@intel.com/
Thanks,
Chenbo
>
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h
> index bb7d86a432..d22b25cd4e 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h
> +++ b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h
> @@ -909,6 +909,21 @@ rte_vhost_clr_inflight_desc_packed(int vid, uint16_t
> vring_idx,
> */
> int rte_vhost_vring_call(int vid, uint16_t vring_idx);
>
> +/**
> + * Notify the guest that used descriptors have been added to the vring.
> This
> + * function acts as a memory barrier. This function will return -EAGAIN
> when
> + * vq's access lock is held by other thread, user should try again later.
> + *
> + * @param vid
> + * vhost device ID
> + * @param vring_idx
> + * vring index
> + * @return
> + * 0 on success, -1 on failure, -EAGAIN for another retry
> + */
> +__rte_experimental
> +int rte_vhost_vring_call_nonblock(int vid, uint16_t vring_idx);
> +
> /**
> * Get vhost RX queue avail count.
> *
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/version.map b/lib/vhost/version.map
> index 7a00b65740..c8c44b8326 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/version.map
> +++ b/lib/vhost/version.map
> @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> rte_vhost_async_try_dequeue_burst;
> rte_vhost_driver_get_vdpa_dev_type;
> rte_vhost_clear_queue;
> +
> + # added in 22.11
> + rte_vhost_vring_call_nonblock;
> };
>
> INTERNAL {
> diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.c b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> index 8740aa2788..ed6efb003f 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -1317,6 +1317,36 @@ rte_vhost_vring_call(int vid, uint16_t vring_idx)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int
> +rte_vhost_vring_call_nonblock(int vid, uint16_t vring_idx)
> +{
> + struct virtio_net *dev;
> + struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
> +
> + dev = get_device(vid);
> + if (!dev)
> + return -1;
> +
> + if (vring_idx >= VHOST_MAX_VRING)
> + return -1;
> +
> + vq = dev->virtqueue[vring_idx];
> + if (!vq)
> + return -1;
> +
> + if (!rte_spinlock_trylock(&vq->access_lock))
> + return -EAGAIN;
> +
> + if (vq_is_packed(dev))
> + vhost_vring_call_packed(dev, vq);
> + else
> + vhost_vring_call_split(dev, vq);
> +
> + rte_spinlock_unlock(&vq->access_lock);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> uint16_t
> rte_vhost_avail_entries(int vid, uint16_t queue_id)
> {
> --
> 2.21.3
