On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 2:31 PM Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> Users may want to change the DPDK process to different versions
Different version of DPDK? If there is any ABI change how to support this?
> such as hot upgrade.
> There is a strong requirement to simplify the logic and shorten the
> traffic downtime as much as possible.
>
> This update introduces new rte_eth process role definitions: active
> or standby.
>
> The active role means rules are programmed to HW immediately, and no
Why it has to be specific only to rte_flow rule? If it spedieic to
rte_flow, why it is in rte_eth_process_ name space?
Also, if we are moving the standby, What about the rule whose ABI is
changed between versions?
> behavior changed. This is the default state.
> The standby role means rules are queued in the HW. If no active roles
> alive or back to active, the rules are effective immediately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 10 ++++
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst | 5 ++
> lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++
> lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 7 ++-
> lib/ethdev/version.map | 3 ++
> 6 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index 51f51259e3..de1fdac0a1 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -2001,3 +2001,13 @@ where:
> * ``sw_queue_id``: queue index in range [64536, 65535].
> This range is the highest 1000 numbers.
> * ``hw_queue_id``: queue index given by HW in queue creation.
> +
> +ethdev set process active or standby
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +User should only program group 0 (fdb_def_rule_en=0) when
> ``rte_eth_process_set_active``
> +has been called and set to a standby role.
> +Group 0 is shared across different DPDK processes while the other groups are
> limited
> +to the current process scope.
> +The process can't move from active to standby role if preceding active
> application's
> +rules are still present and vice versa.
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> index 0923707cb8..6fa48106c4 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> @@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ API Changes
> * ethdev: Old public macros and enumeration constants without ``RTE_ETH_``
> prefix,
> which are kept for backward compatibility, are marked as deprecated.
>
> +* ethdev: added a new experimental api:
> +
> + The new API ``rte_eth_process_set_active()`` was added.
> + If ``RTE_ETH_CAPA_PROCESS_SET_ROLE`` is not advertised, this new api is
> not supported.
> +
> * cryptodev: The asymmetric session handling was modified to use a single
> mempool object. An API ``rte_cryptodev_asym_session_pool_create`` was added
> to create a mempool with element size big enough to hold the generic
> asymmetric
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> index 6a550cfc83..3c583bc39d 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> @@ -179,6 +179,16 @@ struct rte_eth_dev_data {
> pthread_mutex_t flow_ops_mutex; /**< rte_flow ops mutex */
> } __rte_cache_aligned;
>
> +/**@{@name Different rte_eth role flag definitions which will be used
> + * when miagrating DPDK to a different version.
> + */
> +/*
> + * Traffic coming from NIC domain rules will reach
> + * both active and standby processes.
> + */
> +#define RTE_ETH_PROCESS_NIC_DUP_WITH_STANDBY RTE_BIT32(0),
> +/**@}*/
> +
> /**
> * @internal
> * The pool of *rte_eth_dev* structures. The size of the pool
> @@ -1087,6 +1097,22 @@ typedef const uint32_t
> *(*eth_buffer_split_supported_hdr_ptypes_get_t)(struct rt
> */
> typedef int (*eth_dev_priv_dump_t)(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, FILE *file);
>
> +/**
> + * @internal
> + * Set rte_eth process to active or standby role.
> + *
> + * @param dev
> + * Port (ethdev) handle.
> + * @param active
> + * Device (role) active or not (standby).
> + * @param flag
> + * Role specific flag.
> + *
> + * @return
> + * Negative value on error, 0 on success.
> + */
> +typedef int (*eth_process_set_active_t)(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, bool
> active, uint32_t flag);
> +
> /**
> * @internal Set Rx queue available descriptors threshold.
> * @see rte_eth_rx_avail_thresh_set()
> @@ -1403,6 +1429,8 @@ struct eth_dev_ops {
> eth_cman_config_set_t cman_config_set;
> /** Retrieve congestion management configuration */
> eth_cman_config_get_t cman_config_get;
> + /** Set the whole rte_eth process to active or standby role. */
> + eth_process_set_active_t eth_process_set_active;
> };
>
> /**
> @@ -2046,6 +2074,41 @@ struct rte_eth_fdir_conf {
> struct rte_eth_fdir_flex_conf flex_conf;
> };
>
> +/**
> + * @warning
> + * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> + *
> + * Set the rte_eth process to the active or standby role which affects
> + * the flow rules offloading. It doesn't allow multiple processes to be the
> + * same role unless no offload rules are set.
> + * The active process flow rules are effective immediately while the standby
> + * process rules will be matched (active) when the process becomes active or
> + * when the traffic is not matched by the active process rules.
> + * The active application will always receive traffic while the standby
> + * application will receive traffic when no matching rules are present from
> + * the active application.
> + *
> + * The application is active by default if this API is not called.
> + *
> + * When a process transforms from a standby to a active role, all preceding
> + * flow rules which are queued by hardware will be effective immediately.
> + * Before role transition, all the rules set by the active process should be
> + * flushed first.
> + *
> + * When role flag "RTE_ETH_PROCESS_NIC_DUP_WITH_STANDBY" is set, NIC domain
> + * flow rules are effective immediately even if a process is standby role.
> + *
> + * @param active
> + * Process active (role) or not (standby).
> + * @param flag
> + * The role flag.
> + * @return
> + * - (>=0) Number of rte devices which have been switched successfully.
> + * - (-EINVAL) if bad parameter.
> + */
> +__rte_experimental
> +int rte_eth_process_set_active(bool active, uint32_t flag);
> +
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> index 5d5e18db1e..f19da75bfe 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -6318,6 +6318,47 @@ rte_eth_buffer_split_get_supported_hdr_ptypes(uint16_t
> port_id, uint32_t *ptypes
> return j;
> }
>
> +int rte_eth_process_set_active(bool active, uint32_t flag)
> +{
> + struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info = {0};
> + uint32_t flags[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
> + struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
> + uint16_t port_id;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + /* Check if all devices support. */
> + RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV(port_id) {
> + dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
> + if (*dev->dev_ops->dev_infos_get == NULL ||
> + *dev->dev_ops->eth_process_set_active == NULL)
> + return -ENOTSUP;
> + if ((*dev->dev_ops->dev_infos_get)(dev, &dev_info))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + if (!(dev_info.dev_capa & RTE_ETH_CAPA_PROCESS_SET_ROLE))
> + return -ENOTSUP;
> + }
> + RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV(port_id) {
> + dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
> + if ((*dev->dev_ops->dev_infos_get)(dev, &dev_info))
> + goto err;
> + flags[port_id] = dev_info.eth_process_flag;
> + if ((*dev->dev_ops->eth_process_set_active)(dev, active,
> flag) < 0)
> + goto err;
> + ret++;
> + }
> + return ret;
> +err:
> + if (!ret)
> + return 0;
> + RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV(port_id) {
> + dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
> + (*dev->dev_ops->eth_process_set_active)(dev, !active,
> flags[port_id]);
> + if (--ret == 0)
> + break;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> RTE_LOG_REGISTER_DEFAULT(rte_eth_dev_logtype, INFO);
>
> RTE_INIT(ethdev_init_telemetry)
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> index c129ca1eaf..d29f051d6f 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -1606,6 +1606,8 @@ struct rte_eth_conf {
> #define RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_RULE_KEEP RTE_BIT64(3)
> /** Device supports keeping shared flow objects across restart. */
> #define RTE_ETH_DEV_CAPA_FLOW_SHARED_OBJECT_KEEP RTE_BIT64(4)
> +/**Device supports "rte_eth_process_set_active" callback. */
> +#define RTE_ETH_CAPA_PROCESS_SET_ROLE RTE_BIT64(5)
> /**@}*/
>
> /*
> @@ -1777,8 +1779,11 @@ struct rte_eth_dev_info {
> struct rte_eth_switch_info switch_info;
> /** Supported error handling mode. */
> enum rte_eth_err_handle_mode err_handle_mode;
> + /** Process specific role flag. */
> + uint32_t eth_process_flag;
>
> - uint64_t reserved_64s[2]; /**< Reserved for future fields */
> + uint32_t reserved_32s[1]; /**< Reserved for future fields */
> + uint64_t reserved_64s[1]; /**< Reserved for future fields */
> void *reserved_ptrs[2]; /**< Reserved for future fields */
> };
>
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/version.map b/lib/ethdev/version.map
> index 17201fbe0f..a5503f6fde 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/version.map
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/version.map
> @@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> rte_flow_get_q_aged_flows;
> rte_mtr_meter_policy_get;
> rte_mtr_meter_profile_get;
> +
> + # added in 23.03
> + rte_eth_process_set_active;
> };
>
> INTERNAL {
> --
> 2.27.0
>
