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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, chenbo.xia@intel.com, david.marchand@redhat.com,
	mkp@redhat.com, fbl@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	cunming.liang@intel.com, xieyongji@bytedance.com,
	echaudro@redhat.com, eperezma@redhat.com, amorenoz@redhat.com,
	lulu@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/26] Add VDUSE support to Vhost library
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 16:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0344f284-e743-050d-4736-ce09331def3a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230606081852.71003-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>



On 6/6/23 10:18, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 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.
> - 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
> 


Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/main.

Thanks,
Maxime


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-08 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-06  8:18 Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 01/26] vhost: fix IOTLB entries overlap check with previous entry Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 02/26] vhost: add helper of IOTLB entries coredump Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 03/26] vhost: add helper for IOTLB entries shared page check Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 04/26] vhost: don't dump unneeded pages with IOTLB Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 05/26] vhost: change to single IOTLB cache per device Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 06/26] vhost: add offset field to IOTLB entries Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 07/26] vhost: add page size info to IOTLB entry Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 08/26] vhost: retry translating IOVA after IOTLB miss Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 09/26] vhost: introduce backend ops Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 10/26] vhost: add IOTLB cache entry removal callback Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 11/26] vhost: add helper for IOTLB misses Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 12/26] vhost: add helper for interrupt injection Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 13/26] vhost: add API to set max queue pairs Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 14/26] net/vhost: use " Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 15/26] vhost: add control virtqueue support Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 16/26] vhost: add VDUSE device creation and destruction Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 17/26] vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB miss Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 18/26] vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB entry removal Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 19/26] vhost: add VDUSE callback for IRQ injection Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 20/26] vhost: add VDUSE events handler Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 21/26] vhost: add support for virtqueue state get event Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 22/26] vhost: add support for VDUSE status set event Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 23/26] vhost: add support for VDUSE IOTLB update event Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 24/26] vhost: add VDUSE device startup Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-08  2:10   ` Xia, Chenbo
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 25/26] vhost: add multiqueue support to VDUSE Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-06  8:18 ` [PATCH v5 26/26] vhost: add VDUSE device stop Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-08  2:11   ` Xia, Chenbo
2023-06-07  6:48 ` [PATCH v5 00/26] Add VDUSE support to Vhost library Xia, Chenbo
2023-06-07 14:58   ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-08  1:53     ` Xia, Chenbo
2023-06-07  8:05 ` David Marchand
2023-06-08  9:17   ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-08 12:44     ` David Marchand
2023-06-08 14:29 ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]

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