From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] generic channel for multi-process communication
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:18:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64576b41-8a5c-4949-9fc0-ceb2f2625657@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED26CBA2FAD1BF48A8719AEF02201E36513838A8@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 12-Dec-17 7:34 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> Hi Anatoly,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burakov, Anatoly
>> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:00 PM
>> To: Tan, Jianfeng; dev@dpdk.org
>> Cc: Richardson, Bruce; Ananyev, Konstantin; thomas@monjalon.net
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] generic channel for multi-process communication
>>
>> On 30-Nov-17 6:44 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
>>> This patchset adds a generic channel for multi-process (primary/secondary)
>>> communication.
>>>
>>> Patch 1: addess the purpose and howto;
>>> Patch 2: add a syncrhonous way for those messages which need a response
>> immediately.
>>> Patch 3: Rework vfio to use this generic communication channel.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jianfeng,
>>
>> Just a general comment: I am assuming this has the limitation of
>> "everything happens through primary process's involvement". This will
>> work for VFIO, as secondary always needs to ask the primary before doing
>> anything, but it doesn't address other issues that could have been
>> addressed with IPC.
>>
>> For example, if a primary process would've hotplugged a device, it can't
>> notify all secondary processes about this; rather, it has to wait until
>> secondary processes ask for this info.
>
> No need to wait the secondary to pull such info.
>
> It can work like this:
> (1) Register a hotplug callback for each process at initialization;
> (2) Whenever a process wants to hotplug a device, it will broadcast the info, by broadcast, I mean:
> - if plugin happens at the primary, the primary will tell all of the secondary processes;
> - if plugin happens at one secondary, it will firstly tell the primary, and the primary will broadcast it to all the secondary process.
>
>> Neither can it do anything if
>> secondary requests a primary to do something, and notify other secondary
>> processes about it (i.e. if secondary wants to hotplug a device, but
>> there are other secondaries also running). It would be great to have a
>> standard way of doing things like this in future revisions of our IPC.
>
> Please review above thing; If you are OK with that, I'll include this in the next version.
>
> Thanks,
> Jianfeng
>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Anatoly
Yes, that would work, my bad. However i don't think we necessarily need
it right now. This can go in a separate patch. I was rather looking at
other, future potential use cases, hotplug was just an example.
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-30 18:44 Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-30 18:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2017-12-11 11:04 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-11 16:43 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-11-30 18:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2017-12-11 11:39 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-11 16:49 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-11-30 18:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2017-12-11 12:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-11 9:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] generic channel for multi-process communication Burakov, Anatoly
2017-12-12 7:34 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-12-12 16:18 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2018-01-11 4:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-11 4:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-13 12:57 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-15 19:52 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-11 4:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: add and del secondary processes in the primary Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-13 13:11 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-15 21:45 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-11 4:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] eal: add synchronous multi-process communication Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-13 13:41 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-16 0:00 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-16 8:10 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-16 11:12 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-16 16:47 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-17 10:50 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-17 13:09 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-17 13:15 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-17 17:20 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-11 4:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-13 14:03 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-04 14:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] vfio: change to use " Jianfeng Tan
2018-03-14 13:27 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-19 6:53 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-03-20 10:33 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-20 10:56 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-03-20 8:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-05 14:26 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-05 14:39 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-12 23:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-12 15:26 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-04-15 15:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Jianfeng Tan
2018-04-15 15:10 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-04-17 23:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-25 4:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] generic channel for multi-process communication Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 4:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 10:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-25 11:27 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 11:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-25 12:21 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 4:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 12:00 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 12:19 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 12:25 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 13:00 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 13:05 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 13:10 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 15:03 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 16:22 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 17:10 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-25 18:02 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 12:19 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 12:22 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-25 4:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 10:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-25 10:52 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 10:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-25 12:15 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-25 19:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] generic channel for multi-process communication Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 19:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 19:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] generic channel for multi-process communication Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-25 19:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 19:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/2] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 19:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-25 21:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/2] generic channel for " Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-26 3:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-26 3:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-26 10:25 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-29 6:37 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2018-01-29 9:37 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-26 3:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-26 10:31 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-01-29 23:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] generic channel for " Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-30 6:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-30 6:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/2] eal: add " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-30 6:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/2] eal: add synchronous " Jianfeng Tan
2018-01-30 14:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/2] generic channel for " Thomas Monjalon
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