From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Victor Kaplansky <victork@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] vhost: log vring changes
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:31:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151203023119.GX2325@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202180824-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 05:58:24PM +0200, Victor Kaplansky wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:38:02PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 04:07:02PM +0200, Victor Kaplansky wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:43:12AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > > > > Invoking vhost_log_write() to mark corresponding page as dirty while
> > > > > updating used vring.
> > > >
> > > > Looks good, thanks!
> > > >
> > > > I didn't find where you log the dirty pages in result of data
> > > > written to the buffers pointed by the descriptors in RX vring.
> > > > AFAIU, the buffers of RX queue reside in guest's memory and have
> > > > to be marked as dirty if they are written. What do you say?
> > >
> > > Yeah, we should. I got a question then: why log_guest_addr is set
> > > to the physical address of used vring in guest? I mean, apparently,
> > > we need log more changes other than used vring only.
> >
> > The physical address of used vring sent to the back-end, since
> > otherwise back-end has to perform virtual to physical
> > translation, and we want to avoid this. The dirty buffers has to
> > be marked as well, but their guest's physical address is known
> > directly from the descriptors.
>
> Yes, people wanted to be able to do multiple physical
> addresses to one virtual so you do not want to translate
> virt to phys.
Thank you both, it's clear to me then.
--yliu
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Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 3:43 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4 for 2.3] vhost-user live migration support Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 3:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 13:53 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-02 14:31 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 14:48 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-02 15:09 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 16:58 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-02 17:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-02 16:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-03 1:49 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-06 23:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 2:00 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-07 2:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 2:18 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-07 2:49 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 6:29 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-07 11:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 11:41 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-07 13:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-07 16:48 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-07 17:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-08 5:57 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-08 7:25 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 3:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] vhost: introduce vhost_log_write Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 13:53 ` Victor Kaplansky
2015-12-02 14:39 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-09 3:33 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-09 3:42 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-09 5:44 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-09 8:41 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 3:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] vhost: log vring changes Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 14:07 ` Victor Kaplansky
2015-12-02 14:38 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 15:58 ` Victor Kaplansky
2015-12-02 16:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-03 2:31 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2015-12-09 2:45 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-02 3:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] vhost: enable log_shmfd protocol feature Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-02 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4 for 2.3] vhost-user live migration support Victor Kaplansky
2015-12-02 14:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-09 3:41 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-17 3:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] " Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-17 3:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-21 15:32 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 2:25 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 2:41 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 2:55 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-17 3:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] vhost: introduce vhost_log_write Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-21 15:06 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 2:40 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 2:45 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 3:04 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 7:02 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 5:11 ` Peter Xu
2015-12-22 6:09 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-17 3:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] vhost: log used vring changes Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 6:55 ` Peter Xu
2015-12-22 7:07 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-22 7:59 ` Peter Xu
2015-12-22 7:13 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 8:01 ` Peter Xu
2015-12-17 3:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] vhost: log vring desc buffer changes Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-17 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] vhost: claim that we support GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 8:11 ` Peter Xu
2015-12-22 8:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 8:24 ` Pavel Fedin
2015-12-17 3:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] vhost: enable log_shmfd protocol feature Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-17 12:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] vhost-user live migration support Iremonger, Bernard
2015-12-17 12:45 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-21 8:17 ` Pavel Fedin
2016-01-29 4:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] " Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/8] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/8] vhost: introduce vhost_log_write Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-19 14:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-22 6:59 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/8] vhost: log used vring changes Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/8] vhost: log vring desc buffer changes Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] vhost: claim that we support GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-11 12:39 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-03-11 13:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-11 13:22 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-01-29 4:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/8] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SEND_RARP request Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-19 6:11 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-02-19 7:03 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-19 8:55 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-22 14:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: broadcast RARP pkt by injecting it to receiving mbuf array Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-24 8:15 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-02-24 8:28 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-25 7:55 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-02-29 15:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-29 4:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/8] vhost: enable log_shmfd protocol feature Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 4:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/8] vhost: remove duplicate header include Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-01 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] vhost-user live migration support Iremonger, Bernard
2016-02-02 1:53 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-19 15:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-22 7:08 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-22 9:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-22 14:24 ` Yuanhan Liu
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