From: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
"Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:36:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56737F50.5060609@igel.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56737A5E.1030803@igel.co.jp>
On 2015/12/18 12:15, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> On 2015/12/17 20:42, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:00:01PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
>>> The vhost PMD will be a wrapper of vhost library, but some of vhost
>>> library APIs cannot be mapped to ethdev library APIs.
>>> Becasue of this, in some cases, we still need to use vhost library APIs
>>> for a port created by the vhost PMD.
>>>
>>> Currently, when virtio device is created and destroyed, vhost library
>>> will call one of callback handlers. The vhost PMD need to use this
>>> pair of callback handlers to know which virtio devices are connected
>>> actually.
>>> Because we can register only one pair of callbacks to vhost library, if
>>> the PMD use it, DPDK applications cannot have a way to know the events.
>>>
>>> This may break legacy DPDK applications that uses vhost library. To prevent
>>> it, this patch adds one more pair of callbacks to vhost library especially
>>> for the vhost PMD.
>>> With the patch, legacy applications can use the vhost PMD even if they need
>>> additional specific handling for virtio device creation and destruction.
>>>
>>> For example, legacy application can call
>>> rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification() in callbacks to change setting.
>> TBH, I never liked it since the beginning. Introducing two callbacks
>> for one event is a bit messy, and therefore error prone.
> I agree with you.
>
>> I have been thinking this occasionally last few weeks, and have came
>> up something that we may introduce another layer callback based on
>> the vhost pmd itself, by a new API:
>>
>> rte_eth_vhost_register_callback().
>>
>> And we then call those new callback inside the vhost pmd new_device()
>> and vhost pmd destroy_device() implementations.
>>
>> And we could have same callbacks like vhost have, but I'm thinking
>> that new_device() and destroy_device() doesn't sound like a good name
>> to a PMD driver. Maybe a name like "link_state_changed" is better?
>>
>> What do you think of that?
> Yes, "link_state_changed" will be good.
>
> BTW, I thought it was ok that an DPDK app that used vhost PMD called
> vhost library APIs directly.
> But probably you may feel strangeness about it. Is this correct?
>
> If so, how about implementing legacy status interrupt mechanism to vhost
> PMD?
> For example, an DPDK app can register callback handler like
> "examples/link_status_interrupt".
Addition:
In this case, we don't need something special pmd_priv field in vhost
library.
vhost PMD will register callbacks.
And in this callbacks, legacy interrupt mechanism will be kicked.
Then user can receive interrupt from ethdev.
Tetsuya
> Also, if the app doesn't call vhost library APIs directly,
> rte_eth_vhost_portid2vdev() will be needless, because the app doesn't
> need to handle virtio device structure anymore.
>
>>
>> On the other hand, I'm still thinking is that really necessary to let
>> the application be able to call vhost functions like rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification()
>> with the vhost PMD driver?
> Basic concept of my patch is that vhost PMD will provides the features
> that vhost library provides.
>
> How about removing rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification() from "vhost
> library"?
> (I also not sure what are use cases)
> If we can do this, vhost PMD also doesn't need to take care of it.
> Or if rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification() will be removed in the
> future, vhost PMD is able to ignore it.
>
>
> Please let me correct up my thinking about your questions.
> - Change concept of patch not to call vhost library APIs directly.
> These should be wrapped by ethdev APIs.
> - Remove rte_eth_vhost_portid2vdev(), because of above concept changing.
> - Implement legacy status changed interrupt to vhost PMD instead of
> using own callback mechanism.
> - Check if we can remove rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification() from
> vhost library.
>
>
> Hi Xie,
>
> Do you know the use cases of rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification()?
>
> Thanks,
> Tetsuya
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2015-08-31 3:55 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-08-31 3:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2] vhost: " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-09-23 17:47 ` Loftus, Ciara
2015-10-16 8:40 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-20 14:13 ` Loftus, Ciara
2015-10-21 4:30 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-21 10:09 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-16 12:52 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-19 1:51 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-19 9:32 ` Loftus, Ciara
2015-10-19 9:45 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-19 10:50 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-19 13:26 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-19 13:27 ` Richardson, Bruce
2015-10-21 4:35 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-21 6:25 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 10:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-22 9:50 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 13:44 ` Traynor, Kevin
2015-10-28 2:24 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-22 9:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-22 9:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 6:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 6:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] vhost: Fix wrong handling of virtqueue array index Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 6:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27 6:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27 6:47 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27 7:28 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 7:34 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-10-27 6:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-30 17:49 ` Loftus, Ciara
2015-11-02 3:15 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 6:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-02 3:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-02 3:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 5:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 5:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 18:16 ` Aaron Conole
2015-11-10 3:13 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-10 7:16 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 9:48 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-10 10:05 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 10:15 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 5:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 6:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-09 6:27 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 22:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-10 3:14 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-12 12:52 ` Wang, Zhihong
2015-11-13 3:09 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 3:50 ` Wang, Zhihong
2015-11-13 4:03 ` Rich Lane
2015-11-13 4:29 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 5:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 5:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-17 13:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-19 2:03 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-19 2:18 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-19 3:13 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-19 3:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-19 5:14 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-19 5:45 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-19 5:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
[not found] ` <20151119063137.GJ2326@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
2015-11-19 6:37 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 5:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-16 1:57 ` Wang, Zhihong
2015-11-20 11:43 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-24 2:48 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-24 3:40 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-24 3:44 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-21 0:15 ` Rich Lane
2015-11-24 4:41 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-24 9:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/3] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-24 9:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] vhost: Add callback and private data for vhost PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-17 11:42 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-18 3:15 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-18 3:36 ` Tetsuya Mukawa [this message]
2015-12-18 4:15 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-18 4:28 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-18 18:01 ` Rich Lane
2015-12-21 2:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-22 4:36 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 3:41 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 4:47 ` Rich Lane
2015-12-22 5:47 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-22 9:38 ` Rich Lane
2015-12-23 2:44 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-23 22:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-24 3:51 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-24 4:07 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-24 3:09 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-24 3:54 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-24 4:00 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-24 4:23 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-24 5:37 ` Rich Lane
2015-12-24 7:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-28 21:59 ` Rich Lane
2016-01-06 3:56 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-01-06 7:38 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-18 10:03 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-21 2:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-02 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-02 19:52 ` Rich Lane
2016-02-02 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-02 11:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-02 23:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-03 2:13 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-03 7:48 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-03 9:24 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-03 9:35 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-04 7:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-04 7:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-04 7:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-04 11:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-05 6:28 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-05 6:35 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-05 7:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-08 9:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-09 1:54 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-05 11:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-05 11:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-06 4:57 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-05 11:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-06 5:12 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-02-09 9:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-24 2:45 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-02-24 5:09 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-25 7:51 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-02-26 4:29 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-26 8:35 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-01 2:00 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-03-01 2:19 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-02 2:24 ` Qiu, Michael
2016-03-04 1:12 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-02-09 9:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 4:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/2] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 4:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 4:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-04 8:39 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-04 9:58 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-07 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-07 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-07 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-14 12:02 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-15 5:35 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-15 8:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-15 8:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-18 13:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-15 8:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-18 12:27 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-18 13:41 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-18 13:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-18 14:03 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-18 14:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-18 14:21 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 5:41 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 12:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-21 5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 1/2] ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 8:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-21 9:24 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 11:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-21 13:51 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-21 15:40 ` Loftus, Ciara
2016-03-22 1:55 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-22 2:50 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2016-03-22 10:33 ` Loftus, Ciara
2016-02-09 9:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-24 9:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-18 7:45 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-18 9:25 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-24 9:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/3] vhost: Add helper function to convert port id to virtio device pointer Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-17 11:47 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-18 3:15 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-18 4:19 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-08 1:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/3] Add VHOST PMD Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-12-08 2:03 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-08 2:10 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 5:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] " Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-13 5:37 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-13 6:50 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-17 13:26 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-19 1:20 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 5:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-02 3:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] vhost: " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-06 2:22 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-11-06 3:54 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-05 2:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-11-09 22:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] vhost: " Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-10 3:27 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-27 7:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-30 18:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-02 3:15 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-22 9:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] vhost: " Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-22 12:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-23 3:48 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
2015-10-29 14:25 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-10-30 1:18 ` Tetsuya Mukawa
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