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From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
To: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/3] Add mdev (Mediated device) support in DPDK
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 17:36:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190408093601.GA12313@dpdk-tbie.sh.intel.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190408093601.so3Ep21gob7FN9XViR4o873Ml2aeueuyrm79Tal2yio@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD+H993RyPiikX8VD4iCjL0CBN3Ycsd=KeD9N+Brp5QmFoKf3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:44:07AM +0100, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:19 AM Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > This is a draft implementation of the mdev (Mediated device [1])
> > bus support in DPDK. Mdev is a way to virtualize devices in Linux
> > kernel. Based on the device-api (mdev_type/device_api), there could
> > be different types of mdev devices (e.g. vfio-pci). In this RFC,
> > one mdev bus is introduced to scan the mdev devices in the system
> > and do the probe based on the device-api.
> >
> > Take the mdev devices whose device-api is "vfio-pci" as an example,
> > in this RFC, these devices will be probed by a mdev driver provided
> > by PCI bus, which will plug them to the PCI bus. And they will be
> > probed with the drivers registered on the PCI bus based on VendorID/
> > DeviceID/... then.
> >
> >                      +----------+
> >                      | mdev bus |
> >                      +----+-----+
> >                           |
> >          +----------------+----+------+------+
> >          |                     |      |      |
> >    mdev_vfio_pci               ......
> > (device-api: vfio-pci)
> >
> > There are also other ways to add mdev device support in DPDK (e.g.
> > let PCI bus scan /sys/bus/mdev/devices directly). Comments would be
> > appreciated!
> 
> Hi Tiwei,
> 
> Thanks for the patchset. I was close to send a patchset with the same mdev
> support, but I'm glad to see your patchset first because I think it is
> interesting to see another view of how to implemented this.
> 
> After going through your patch I was a bit confused about how the mdev device
> to mdev driver match was done. But then I realized the approach you are
> following is different to my implementation, likely due to having different
> purposes. If I understand the idea behind, you want to have same PCI PMD
> drivers working with devices, PCI devices, created from mediated devices.

Exactly!

> That
> is the reason there is just one mdev driver, the one for vfio-pci mediated
> devices type.
> 
> My approach was different and I though having specific PMD mdev support was
> necessary, with the PMD requiring to register a mdev driver. I can see, after
> reading your patch, it can be perfectly possible to have the same PMDs for
> "pure" PCI devices and PCI devices made from mediated devices, and if the PMD
> requires to do something different due to the mediated devices intrinsics, then
> explicitly supporting that per PMD. I got specific ioctl calls between the PMD
> and the mediating driver but this can also be done with your approach.
> 
> I'm working on having a mediated PF, what is a different purpose than the Intel
> scalable I/O idea, so I will merge this patchset with my code and see if it
> works. 

Cool! Thanks!

> 
> Thanks!
>  
> 
> > [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tiwei
> > 
> > Tiwei Bie (3):
> >   eal: add a helper for reading string from sysfs
> >   bus/mdev: add mdev bus support
> >   bus/pci: add mdev support
> > 
> >  config/common_base                        |   5 +
> >  config/common_linux                       |   1 +
> >  drivers/bus/Makefile                      |   1 +
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/Makefile                 |  41 +++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/linux/Makefile           |   6 +
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/linux/mdev.c             | 117 ++++++++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/mdev.c                   | 310 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/meson.build              |  15 ++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/private.h                |  90 +++++++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/rte_bus_mdev.h           | 141 ++++++++++
> >  drivers/bus/mdev/rte_bus_mdev_version.map |  12 +
> >  drivers/bus/meson.build                   |   2 +-
> >  drivers/bus/pci/Makefile                  |   3 +
> >  drivers/bus/pci/linux/Makefile            |   4 +
> >  drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_vfio.c          |  35 ++-
> >  drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_vfio_mdev.c     | 305 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/bus/pci/meson.build               |   4 +-
> >  drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c              |  17 +-
> >  drivers/bus/pci/private.h                 |   9 +
> >  drivers/bus/pci/rte_bus_pci.h             |  11 +-
> >  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_filesystem.h    |   7 +
> >  lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c          |  22 ++
> >  lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c            |  22 ++
> >  lib/librte_eal/rte_eal_version.map        |   1 +
> >  mk/rte.app.mk                             |   1 +
> >  25 files changed, 1163 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/linux/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/linux/mdev.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/mdev.c
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/meson.build
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/private.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/rte_bus_mdev.h
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mdev/rte_bus_mdev_version.map
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/pci/linux/pci_vfio_mdev.c
> > 
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> 
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03  7:18 Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/3] eal: add a helper for reading string from sysfs Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/3] bus/mdev: add mdev bus support Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/3] bus/pci: add mdev support Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03  7:18   ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-03 14:13   ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-03 14:13     ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-04  4:19     ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-04  4:19       ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-08  8:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/3] Add mdev (Mediated device) support in DPDK Alejandro Lucero
2019-04-08  8:44   ` Alejandro Lucero
2019-04-08  9:36   ` Tiwei Bie [this message]
2019-04-08  9:36     ` Tiwei Bie
2019-04-10 10:02     ` Francois Ozog
2019-04-10 10:02       ` Francois Ozog
2023-07-03 23:54       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-15  7:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/5] " Tiwei Bie
2019-07-15  7:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/5] bus/pci: introduce an internal representation of PCI device Tiwei Bie
2019-07-15  7:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/5] bus/pci: avoid depending on private value in kernel source Tiwei Bie
2019-07-15  7:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 3/5] bus/pci: introduce helper for MMIO read and write Tiwei Bie
2019-07-15  7:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 4/5] eal: add a helper for reading string from sysfs Tiwei Bie
2019-07-15  7:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 5/5] bus/pci: add mdev support Tiwei Bie
2021-06-01  3:06     ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 0/6] Add mdev (Mediated device) support in DPDK Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 1/6] bus/pci: introduce an internal representation of PCI device Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 2/6] bus/pci: avoid depending on private value in kernel source Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 3/6] bus/pci: introduce helper for MMIO read and write Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 4/6] eal: add a helper for reading string from sysfs Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  5:37         ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-08  5:47           ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-06-01  5:39         ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-08  5:48           ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-06-11  7:19         ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 5/6] bus/pci: add mdev support Chenbo Xia
2021-06-01  3:06       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 6/6] bus/pci: add sparse mmap support for mediated PCI devices Chenbo Xia
2021-06-11  7:15       ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 0/6] Add mdev (Mediated device) support in DPDK Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-15  2:49         ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-06-15  7:48           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-15 10:44             ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-06-15 11:57             ` Jason Gunthorpe

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