Hi Maxime, > -----Original Message----- > From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 4:18 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo....@intel.com>; > david.march...@redhat.com; m...@redhat.com; f...@redhat.com; > jasow...@redhat.com; Liang, Cunming <cunming.li...@intel.com>; Xie, Yongji > <xieyon...@bytedance.com>; echau...@redhat.com; epere...@redhat.com; > amore...@redhat.com; l...@redhat.com > Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> > Subject: [PATCH v5 00/26] Add VDUSE support to Vhost library > > This series introduces a new type of backend, VDUSE, > to the Vhost library. > > VDUSE stands for vDPA device in Userspace, it enables > implementing a Virtio device in userspace and have it > attached to the Kernel vDPA bus. > > Once attached to the vDPA bus, it can be used either by > Kernel Virtio drivers, like virtio-net in our case, via > the virtio-vdpa driver. Doing that, the device is visible > to the Kernel networking stack and is exposed to userspace > as a regular netdev. > > It can also be exposed to userspace thanks to the > vhost-vdpa driver, via a vhost-vdpa chardev that can be > passed to QEMU or Virtio-user PMD. > > While VDUSE support is already available in upstream > Kernel, a couple of patches are required to support > network device type: > > https://gitlab.com/mcoquelin/linux/-/tree/vduse_networking_rfc > > In order to attach the created VDUSE device to the vDPA > bus, a recent iproute2 version containing the vdpa tool is > required. > > Benchmark results: > ================== > > On this v2, PVP reference benchmark has been run & compared with > Vhost-user. > > When doing macswap forwarding in the worload, no difference is seen. > When doing io forwarding in the workload, we see 4% performance > degradation with VDUSE, comapred to Vhost-user/Virtio-user. It is > explained by the use of the IOTLB layer in the Vhost-library when using > VDUSE, whereas Vhost-user/Virtio-user does not make use of it. > > Usage: > ====== > > 1. Probe required Kernel modules > # modprobe vdpa > # modprobe vduse > # modprobe virtio-vdpa > > 2. Build (require vduse kernel headers to be available) > # meson build > # ninja -C build > > 3. Create a VDUSE device (vduse0) using Vhost PMD with > testpmd (with 4 queue pairs in this example) > # ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd --no-pci -- > vdev=net_vhost0,iface=/dev/vduse/vduse0,queues=4 --log-level=*:9 -- -i -- > txq=4 --rxq=4 > > 4. Attach the VDUSE device to the vDPA bus > # vdpa dev add name vduse0 mgmtdev vduse > => The virtio-net netdev shows up (eth0 here) > # ip l show eth0 > 21: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP > mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether c2:73:ea:a7:68:6d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > 5. Start/stop traffic in testpmd > testpmd> start > testpmd> show port stats 0 > ######################## NIC statistics for port 0 > ######################## > RX-packets: 11 RX-missed: 0 RX-bytes: 1482 > RX-errors: 0 > RX-nombuf: 0 > TX-packets: 1 TX-errors: 0 TX-bytes: 62 > > Throughput (since last show) > Rx-pps: 0 Rx-bps: 0 > Tx-pps: 0 Tx-bps: 0 > > ########################################################################## > ## > testpmd> stop > > 6. Detach the VDUSE device from the vDPA bus > # vdpa dev del vduse0 > > 7. Quit testpmd > testpmd> quit > > Known issues & remaining work: > ============================== > - Fix issue in FD manager (still polling while FD has been removed) > - Add Netlink support in Vhost library > - Support device reconnection > -> a temporary patch to support reconnection via a tmpfs file is > available, > upstream solution would be in-kernel and is being developed. > -> https://gitlab.com/mcoquelin/dpdk-next-virtio/- > /commit/5ad06ce14159a9ce36ee168dd13ef389cec91137 > - Support packed ring > - Provide more performance benchmark results > > Changes in v5: > ============== > - Delay starting/stopping the device to after having replied to the VDUSE > event in order to avoid a deadlock encountered when testing with OVS.
Could you explain more to help me understand the deadlock issue? Thanks, Chenbo > - Mention reconnection support lack in the release note. > > Changes in v4: > ============== > - Applied patch 1 and patch 2 from v3 > - Rebased on top of Eelco series > - Fix coredump clear in IOTLB cache removal (David) > - Remove uneeded ret variable in vhost_vring_inject_irq (David) > - Fixed release note (David, Chenbo) > > Changes in v2/v3: > ================= > - Fixed mem_set_dump() parameter (patch 4) > - Fixed accidental comment change (patch 7, Chenbo) > - Change from __builtin_ctz to __builtin_ctzll (patch 9, Chenbo) > - move change from patch 12 to 13 (Chenbo) > - Enable locks annotation for control queue (Patch 17) > - Send control queue notification when used descriptors enqueued (Patch 17) > - Lock control queue IOTLB lock (Patch 17) > - Fix error path in virtio_net_ctrl_pop() (Patch 17, Chenbo) > - Set VDUSE dev FD as NONBLOCK (Patch 18) > - Enable more Virtio features (Patch 18) > - Remove calls to pthread_setcancelstate() (Patch 22) > - Add calls to fdset_pipe_notify() when adding and deleting FDs from a set > (Patch 22) > - Use RTE_DIM() to get requests string array size (Patch 22) > - Set reply result for IOTLB update message (Patch 25, Chenbo) > - Fix queues enablement with multiqueue (Patch 26) > - Move kickfd creation for better logging (Patch 26) > - Improve logging (Patch 26) > - Uninstall cvq kickfd in case of handler installation failure (Patch 27) > - Enable CVQ notifications once handler is installed (Patch 27) > - Don't advertise multiqueue and control queue if app only request single > queue pair (Patch 27) > - Add release notes > > Maxime Coquelin (26): > vhost: fix IOTLB entries overlap check with previous entry > vhost: add helper of IOTLB entries coredump > vhost: add helper for IOTLB entries shared page check > vhost: don't dump unneeded pages with IOTLB > vhost: change to single IOTLB cache per device > vhost: add offset field to IOTLB entries > vhost: add page size info to IOTLB entry > vhost: retry translating IOVA after IOTLB miss > vhost: introduce backend ops > vhost: add IOTLB cache entry removal callback > vhost: add helper for IOTLB misses > vhost: add helper for interrupt injection > vhost: add API to set max queue pairs > net/vhost: use API to set max queue pairs > vhost: add control virtqueue support > vhost: add VDUSE device creation and destruction > vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB miss > vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB entry removal > vhost: add VDUSE callback for IRQ injection > vhost: add VDUSE events handler > vhost: add support for virtqueue state get event > vhost: add support for VDUSE status set event > vhost: add support for VDUSE IOTLB update event > vhost: add VDUSE device startup > vhost: add multiqueue support to VDUSE > vhost: add VDUSE device stop > > doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 4 + > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst | 12 + > drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 3 + > lib/vhost/iotlb.c | 333 +++++++------ > lib/vhost/iotlb.h | 45 +- > lib/vhost/meson.build | 5 + > lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h | 17 + > lib/vhost/socket.c | 72 ++- > lib/vhost/vduse.c | 646 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/vhost/vduse.h | 33 ++ > lib/vhost/version.map | 1 + > lib/vhost/vhost.c | 70 ++- > lib/vhost/vhost.h | 57 ++- > lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 51 +- > lib/vhost/vhost_user.h | 2 +- > lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.c | 286 +++++++++++ > lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.h | 10 + > 17 files changed, 1409 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 lib/vhost/vduse.c > create mode 100644 lib/vhost/vduse.h > create mode 100644 lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.c > create mode 100644 lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.h > > -- > 2.40.1
