RE: [RFC 1/2] vhost: add unsafe API to check inflight packets

["Ding, Xuan" <xuan.ding@intel.com>]

Hi Maxime,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 11:05 PM
> To: Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding@intel.com>; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Hu, Jiayu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>; Pai G, Sunil
> <sunil.pai.g@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] vhost: add unsafe API to check inflight packets
> 
> Hi Xuan,
> 
> On 2/16/22 08:04, xuan.ding@intel.com wrote:
> > From: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding@intel.com>
> >
> > In async data path, when vring state changes or device is destroyed,
> > it is necessary to know the number of inflight packets in DMA engine.
> > This patch provides a thread unsafe API to return the number of
> > inflight packets for a vhost queue without using any lock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding@intel.com>
> > ---
> >   doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst    |  5 +++++
> >   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst |  4 ++++
> >   lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h            | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >   lib/vhost/version.map                  |  1 +
> >   lib/vhost/vhost.c                      | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   5 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> > b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> > index 886f8f5e72..f95288d128 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> > @@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost
> API functions:
> >     This function returns the amount of in-flight packets for the vhost
> >     queue using async acceleration.
> >
> > + * ``rte_vhost_async_get_inflight_thread_unsafe(vid, queue_id)``
> > +
> > +  Get the number of inflight packets for a vhost queue without
> > + performing any locking.
> 
> Here and below in the API doc, I would add that it should only be used within
> the vhost ops, which already hold the lock.

Thanks for the revision on the doc.

> 
> > +
> >   * ``rte_vhost_clear_queue_thread_unsafe(vid, queue_id, **pkts,
> > count, dma_id, vchan_id)``
> >
> >     Clear inflight packets which are submitted to DMA engine in vhost
> > async data diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> > index ff3095d742..37ef37bb20 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_22_03.rst
> > @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ New Features
> >     * Called ``rte_ipv4/6_udptcp_cksum_mbuf()`` functions in testpmd csum
> mode
> >       to support software UDP/TCP checksum over multiple segments.
> >
> > +* **Added vhost API to get the number of inflight packets.**
> > +
> > +  Added an API which can get the number of inflight packets in  vhost
> > + async data path without using lock.
> >
> >   Removed Items
> >   -------------
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h
> > index 838c4778cc..06b0b0a579 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h
> > @@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ uint16_t rte_vhost_poll_enqueue_completed(int
> vid, uint16_t queue_id,
> >   __rte_experimental
> >   int rte_vhost_async_get_inflight(int vid, uint16_t queue_id);
> >
> > +/**
> > + * This function is lock-free version to return the amount of
> > +in-flight
> > + * packets for the vhost queue which uses async channel acceleration.
> > + *
> > + * @param vid
> > + * id of vhost device to enqueue data
> > + * @param queue_id
> > + * queue id to enqueue data
> > + * @return
> > + * the amount of in-flight packets on success; -1 on failure  */
> > +__rte_experimental int rte_vhost_async_get_inflight_thread_unsafe(int
> > +vid, uint16_t queue_id);
> > +
> >   /**
> >    * This function checks async completion status and clear packets for
> >    * a specific vhost device queue. Packets which are inflight will be
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/version.map b/lib/vhost/version.map index
> > 1202ba9c1a..03b46cb10e 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/version.map
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/version.map
> > @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> >
> >   	# added in 22.03
> >   	rte_vhost_async_dma_configure;
> > +	rte_vhost_async_get_inflight_thread_unsafe;
> 
> Don't forget to move it to "added in 22.07".

Sure, I will send a v1 version in 22.07.
Thanks for your comments.

Regards,
Xuan

> 
> >   };
> >
> >   INTERNAL {
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost.c b/lib/vhost/vhost.c index
> > 6bcb716de0..33dca62c6c 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost.c
> > @@ -1907,6 +1907,32 @@ rte_vhost_async_get_inflight(int vid, uint16_t
> queue_id)
> >   	return ret;
> >   }
> >
> > +int
> > +rte_vhost_async_get_inflight_thread_unsafe(int vid, uint16_t
> > +queue_id) {
> > +	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
> > +	struct virtio_net *dev = get_device(vid);
> > +	int ret = -1;
> > +
> > +	if (dev == NULL)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	if (queue_id >= VHOST_MAX_VRING)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	vq = dev->virtqueue[queue_id];
> > +
> > +	if (vq == NULL)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	if (!vq->async)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	ret = vq->async->pkts_inflight_n;
> > +
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> >   int
> >   rte_vhost_get_monitor_addr(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
> >   		struct rte_vhost_power_monitor_cond *pmc)