From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:45:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160202024518.GG4257@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B01246.4010705@igel.co.jp>
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:19:50AM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> On 2016/02/01 22:15, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:50:00AM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> >> On 2016/01/29 18:17, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 06:33:32PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> >>>> This patch addss function pointers to abstract pci access method.
> >>>> This abstraction layer will be used when virtio-net PMD supports
> >>>> container extension.
> >>>>
> >>>> The below functions abstract how to access to pci configuration space.
> >>>>
> >>>> struct virtio_pci_cfg_ops {
> >>>> int (*map)(...);
> >>>> void (*unmap)(...);
> >>>> void *(*get_mapped_addr)(...);
> >>>> int (*read)(...);
> >>>> };
> >>>>
> >>>> The pci configuration space has information how to access to virtio
> >>>> device registers. Basically, there are 2 ways to acccess to the
> >>>> registers. One is using portio and the other is using mapped memory.
> >>>> The below functions abstract this access method.
> >>> One question: is there a way to map PCI memory with Qtest? I'm thinking
> >>> if we can keep the io_read/write() for Qtest as well, if so, code could
> >>> be simplified, a lot, IMO.
> >>>
> >> Yes, I agree with you.
> >> But AFAIK, we don't have a way to mmap it from DPDK application.
> >>
> >> We may be able to map PCI configuration space to a memory address space
> >> that guest CPU can handle.
> >> But even in this case, I guess we cannot access the memory without qtest
> >> messaging.
> > Acutally, I have a concern about this access abstraction, which makes
> > those simple funciton not inline. It won't be an issue for most of them,
> > as most of them are invoked during init stage, where has no impact on
> > performance.
> >
> > notify_queue(), however, is a bit different. I was thinking the "inline
> > to callback (not inline)" convertion might has some impacts on the
> > performance. Would you do a test for me?
>
> Sure, I will be able to.
Thanks.
> But if we concern about it, I guess it's also nice to implement the PMD
> on your vtpci abstraction.
> (It means we don't use the access abstraction)
> Probably this lets our merging process faster.
> What do you think?
Another standalone PMD driver? (sorry that I didn't follow the
discussion). If so, won't it introduce too much duplicate code?
--yliu
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2016-01-18 9:13 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-18 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Change the parameter order of io_write8/16/32() Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/5] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/5] virtio: Change the parameter order of io_write8/16/32() Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/5] virtio: move rte_eal_pci_unmap_device() to virtio_pci.c Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/5] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-22 7:26 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-22 7:35 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/5] EAL: Add new EAL "--shm" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-22 1:43 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-22 2:07 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-22 3:23 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-21 11:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 5/5] virtio: Extend virtio-net PMD to support container environment Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-22 8:14 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-22 10:37 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-25 10:15 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-26 2:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-27 9:39 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 2:33 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-25 10:17 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-26 2:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-25 10:29 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-26 2:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-27 10:03 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 2:44 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-29 8:56 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-27 15:58 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 2:47 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 9:48 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 9:53 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-27 16:45 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 2:47 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 6:15 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-28 6:29 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-29 8:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-29 9:13 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-01 1:49 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] Virtio-net PMD: QEMU QTest extension for container Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] virtio: Retrieve driver name from eth_dev Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] EAL: Add new EAL "--qtest-virtio" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-15 7:52 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-02-16 1:32 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-16 5:53 ` David Marchand
2016-02-16 11:36 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-02-17 3:36 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] Virtio-net PMD: QEMU QTest extension for container Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] virtio: Retrieve driver name from eth_dev Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] vhost: Add a function to check virtio device type Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] EAL: Add new EAL "--range-virtaddr" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 2:20 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/12] Virtio-net PMD: QEMU QTest extension for container Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 01/12] virtio: Retrieve driver name from eth_dev Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/12] vhost: Add a function to check virtio device type Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 03/12] EAL: Add a new "--range-virtaddr" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 04/12] EAL: Add a new "--align-memsize" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 05/12] virtio, qtest: Add QTest utility basic functions Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 06/12] virtio, qtest: Add pci device initialization function to qtest utils Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 07/12] virtio, qtest: Add functionality to share memory between QTest guest Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 08/12] virtio, qtest: Add functionality to handle interrupt Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 09/12] virtio, qtest: Add misc functions to handle pci information Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 10/12] virtio: Add QTest support to vtpci abstraction Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 11/12] virtio: Add QTest support for virtio-net PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] Virtio-net PMD: QEMU QTest extension for container Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 7:31 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-02 9:30 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-03 4:17 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-03 13:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-06 5:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-06 7:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 8:33 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-06 8:49 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 9:30 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-06 9:58 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 10:50 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-06-07 7:12 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-07 7:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 8:03 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-06-06 9:28 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-06 10:35 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] virtio, qtest: Add QTest utility basic functions Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] virtio, qtest: Add pci device initialization function to qtest utils Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] virtio, qtest: Add functionality to share memory between QTest guest Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] virtio, qtest: Add misc functions to handle pci information Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] virtio: Add QTest support to vtpci abstraction Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] virtio: Add QTest support for virtio-net PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Supplement patches for virtio-qtest to support LSC interrupt Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/2] virtio: Handle interrupt things under vtpci abstraction Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-06-02 3:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] virtio, qtest: Add functionality to handle interrupt Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-09 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 12/12] docs: add release note for qtest virtio container support Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] EAL: Add a new "--align-memsize" option Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] virtio: Add support for qtest virtio-net PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 2:18 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 5:05 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 6:10 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 9:53 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 8:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] docs: add release note for qtest virtio container support Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-22 15:40 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-02-23 10:28 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-02-24 1:20 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] vhost: Add a function to check virtio device type Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] virtio: Add support for qtest virtio-net PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-10 3:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] docs: add release note for qtest virtio container support Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] virtio: Change the parameter order of io_write8/16/32() Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] virtio: move rte_eal_pci_unmap_device() to virtio_pci.c Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-28 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-29 9:17 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-01 1:50 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-01 13:15 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-02 2:19 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-02 2:45 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-02-02 3:55 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-18 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] virtio: move rte_eal_pci_unmap_device() to virtio_pci.c Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-18 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] virtio: Add a new layer to abstract pci access method Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-18 13:46 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-01-19 1:22 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-19 2:41 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-01-18 13:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] " Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-19 1:22 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
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