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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, marcel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/8] vhost: vring queue setup for multiple queue support
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:51:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1520656.Lg374xclAN@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151027113807-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>

2015-10-27 11:42, Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 05:30:41PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:17:16AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Looking at that, at least when MQ is enabled, please don't key
> > > stopping queues off GET_VRING_BASE.
> > 
> > Yes, that's only a workaround. I guess it has been there for quite a
> > while, maybe at the time qemu doesn't send RESET_OWNER message.
> 
> RESET_OWNER was a bad idea since it basically closes
> everything.
> 
> > > There are ENABLE/DISABLE messages for that.
> > 
> > That's something new,
> 
> That's part of multiqueue support. If you ignore them,
> nothing works properly.
> 
> > though I have plan to use them instead, we still
> > need to make sure our code work with old qemu, without ENABLE/DISABLE
> > messages.
> 
> OK but don't rely on this for new code.
> 
> > And I will think more while enabling live migration: I should have
> > more time to address issues like this at that time.
> > 
> > > Generally guys, don't take whatever QEMU happens to do for
> > > granted! Look at the protocol spec under doc/specs directory,
> > > if you are making more assumptions you must document them!
> > 
> > Indeed. And we will try to address them bit by bit in future.
> > 
> > 	--yliu
> 
> But don't pile up these workarounds meanwhile.  I'm very worried.  The
> way you are carrying on, each new QEMU is likely to break your
> assumptions.

I think it may be saner to increase the minimum QEMU version supported in
each DPDK release, dropping old stuff progressively.
Michael, you are welcome to suggest how to move precisely.
Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21  3:48 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/8] vhost-user multiple queues enabling Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/8] vhost-user: add protocol features support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22  9:52   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/8] vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22  9:38   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/8] vhost: vring queue setup for multiple queue support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  4:45   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-21  6:52     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22  9:49   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-22 11:30     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/8] vhost: rxtx: use queue id instead of constant ring index Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  4:43   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-21  6:54     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  7:16     ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-21  9:38       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-10-21 15:47         ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-21 15:52           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21 15:57             ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-21 15:55           ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-21 16:29             ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-10-21 10:31   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 12:48     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21 14:26       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 14:59         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22  9:49         ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 11:32           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-22 14:07             ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 14:19               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-23  8:02                 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-24  2:34             ` Flavio Leitner
2015-10-24 17:47               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-28 20:30                 ` Flavio Leitner
2015-10-28 21:12                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-16 22:20                     ` Flavio Leitner
2015-11-17  8:23                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-17  9:24                         ` Jason Wang
2015-11-17 22:49                         ` Flavio Leitner
2015-10-22  7:26   ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 5/8] virtio: fix deadloop due to reading virtio_net_config incorrectly Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/8] vhost-user: enable vhost-user multiple queue Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 7/8] vhost: add VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-21  3:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 8/8] doc: update release note for vhost-user mq support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/8] vhost-user multiple queues enabling Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/8] vhost-user: add protocol features support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/8] vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/8] vhost: vring queue setup for multiple queue support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-26  5:24     ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-26  5:42       ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27  6:20         ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27  9:17           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-27  9:30             ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27  9:42               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-27  9:51                 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-27  9:55                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-27 10:41                     ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-27  9:53                 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 4/8] vhost: rxtx: use queue id instead of constant ring index Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 5/8] virtio: fix deadloop due to reading virtio_net_config incorrectly Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 6/8] vhost: add VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE message Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/8] vhost-user: enable vhost-user multiple queue Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-22 12:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 8/8] doc: update release note for vhost-user mq support Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-26 20:22     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-27  9:38       ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-26  1:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/8] vhost-user multiple queues enabling Xie, Huawei
2015-10-26  3:09     ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-26 20:26     ` Thomas Monjalon

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