From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322DE1BA68 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:02:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46A0446263; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.112.55] (ovpn-112-55.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.55]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A19767164; Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:01:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>, tiwei.bie@intel.com Cc: alejandro.lucero@netronome.com, dev@dpdk.org, zhihong.wang@intel.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com References: <20181213100910.13087-2-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> <20181214211612.167681-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> Message-ID: <6c0c0bba-b395-6b3a-ac14-556b1c251e5c@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:01:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181214211612.167681-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/10] support SW assisted VDPA live migration X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:02:02 -0000 On 12/14/18 10:16 PM, Xiao Wang wrote: > In the previous VDPA implementation we have enabled live migration support > by HW accelerator doing all the stuff, including dirty page logging and > device status report/restore. In this mode VDPA sample daemon and device > driver just takes care of the control path and does not involve in data > path, so there's almost 0 CPU resource usage. This mode requires device > to have dirty page logging capability. > > This patch series adds live migration support for devices without logging > capability. VDPA driver could set up a relay thread standing between the > guest and device when live migration happens, this relay intervenes into > the communication between guest virtio driver and physical virtio > accelerator, it helps device to do a vring relay and passingly log dirty > pages. Thus some CPU resource will be consumed in this scenario, percentage > depending on the network throughput. > > Some new helpers are added into vhost lib for this VDPA SW fallback: > - rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl, to enable/disable the VDPA direct-IO > datapath. > - rte_vdpa_relay_vring_avail, to relay the available request from guest vring > to mediate vring. > - rte_vdpa_relay_vring_used, to relay the used response from mediate vring to > guest vring. > > Some existing helpers are also leveraged for SW fallback setup, like VFIO > interrupt configuration, IOMMU table programming, etc. > > This patch enables this SW assisted VDPA live migration in ifc driver. > Since ifcvf also supports HW dirty page logging, we add a new devarg > for user to select if the SW mode is used or not. > > v4: > * Add a patch to remove the unused vhost internal API: vhost_detach_vdpa_device(). > > v3: > * Fix indent in relay code. > * Fix the iova access mode issue of buffer check. > * Rename the relay API to be more generic, and add more API note for used > ring handling. > * Add kvargs lib dependency in ifc driver. > * Add commit message for the doc update patch for checkpatch warning. > > v2: > * Reword the vdpa host notifier control API comment. > * Make the vring relay API parameter as "void *" to accomodate the future > potential new ring layout, e.g. packed ring. > * Add parameter check for the new API. > * Add memory barrier for ring idx update. > * Remove the used ring logging in the relay. > * Some comment fix and code cleaning according to Tiwei's comment. > * Add release note update. > > Xiao Wang (10): > vhost: remove unused internal API > vhost: provide helper for host notifier ctrl > vhost: provide helpers for virtio ring relay > net/ifc: dump debug message for error > net/ifc: store only registered device instance > net/ifc: detect if VDPA mode is specified > net/ifc: add devarg for LM mode > net/ifc: use lib API for used ring logging > net/ifc: support SW assisted VDPA live migration > doc: update ifc NIC document > > doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst | 8 + > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst | 6 + > drivers/net/ifc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf.h | 1 + > drivers/net/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c | 461 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > lib/librte_vhost/rte_vdpa.h | 57 ++++ > lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map | 3 + > lib/librte_vhost/vdpa.c | 194 ++++++++++++++ > lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c | 13 - > lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h | 41 ++- > lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 7 +- > lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 39 --- > 12 files changed, 741 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) > Applied to dpdk-next-virtio Thanks, Maxime