From: "Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
"Lu, Xiuchun" <xiuchun.lu@intel.com>,
"Li, Miao" <miao.li@intel.com>,
"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Introduce emudev library and iavf emudev driver
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 06:11:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR11MB40636EC557101970DFC532069CC20@MN2PR11MB4063.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8wGVUnuFPxkjSXM4eyH6WG0cFVx0FTYddz6ZF0Z46U8Nw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi David,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 5:54 PM
> To: Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Stephen
> Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>; Liang, Cunming
> <cunming.liang@intel.com>; Lu, Xiuchun <xiuchun.lu@intel.com>; Li, Miao
> <miao.li@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Introduce emudev library and iavf emudev driver
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 9:02 AM Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > This series introduces a new device abstraction called emudev for
> emulated
> > devices. A new library (librte_emudev) is implemented. The first emudev
> > driver is also introduced, which emulates Intel Adaptive Virtual
> Function
> > (iavf) as a software network device.
> >
> > This series has a dependency on librte_vfio_user patch series:
> > http://patchwork.dpdk.org/cover/85389/
> >
> > Background & Motivation
> > -----------------------
> > The disaggregated/multi-process QEMU is using VFIO-over-socket/vfio-user
> > as the main transport mechanism to disaggregate IO services from QEMU.
> > Therefore, librte_vfio_user is introduced in DPDK to accommodate
> > emulated devices for high performance I/O. Although vfio-user library
> > provides possibility of emulating devices in DPDK, DPDK does not have
> > a device abstraction for emulated devices. A good device abstraction
> will
> > be useful for applications or high performance data path driver. With
> > this consideration, emudev library is designed and implemented. It also
> > make it possbile to keep modular design on emulated devices by
> implementing
> > data path related logic in a standalone driver (e.g., an ethdev driver)
> > and keeps the unrelated logic in the emudev driver.
>
> Since you mention performance, how does it compare to vhost-user/virtio?
I think it depends on the device specification (i.e., how complex its data path
handling is). A first try on iavf spec shows better performance than virtio
in our simple tests.
Thanks!
Chenbo
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-19 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 7:47 Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-07 7:18 ` Xing, Beilei
2021-01-07 8:41 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18 9:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " David Marchand
2020-12-19 6:11 ` Xia, Chenbo [this message]
2020-12-21 9:52 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-21 12:01 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-22 3:09 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-22 8:48 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-23 5:28 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19 6:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-04 6:45 ` Wu, Jingjing
2021-01-05 1:26 ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-01-05 13:41 ` Wu, Jingjing
2021-01-06 7:41 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2020-12-29 6:05 ` Wu, Jingjing
2020-12-30 1:59 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19 6:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2021-01-13 16:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-14 1:35 ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14 6:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2024-02-12 22:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-14 19:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Stephen Hemminger
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