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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com, Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/virtio: fix virtio-user init when using existing tap
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 12:12:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c3ef9b7-c5a9-6267-2bb8-f2a8b61697a0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928085114.30737-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>



On 9/28/21 10:51, David Marchand wrote:
> When attaching to an existing mono queue tap, the virtio-user was not
> reporting that the virtio device was not properly initialised which
> prevented from starting the port later.
> 
> $ ip tuntap add test mode tap
> $ dpdk-testpmd --vdev \
>    net_virtio_user0,iface=test,path=/dev/vhost-net,queues=2 -- -i
> 
> ...
> virtio_user_dev_init_mac(): (/dev/vhost-net) No valid MAC in devargs or
> device, use random
> vhost_kernel_open_tap(): TUNSETIFF failed: Invalid argument
> vhost_kernel_enable_queue_pair(): fail to open tap for vhost kernel
> virtio_user_start_device(): (/dev/vhost-net) Failed to start device
> ...
> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
> vhost_kernel_open_tap(): TUNSETIFF failed: Invalid argument
> vhost_kernel_enable_queue_pair(): fail to open tap for vhost kernel
> virtio_set_multiple_queues(): Multiqueue configured but send command
> failed, this is too late now...
> Fail to start port 0: Invalid argument
> Please stop the ports first
> Done
> 
> The virtio-user with vhost-kernel backend was going through a lot
> of complications to initialise tap fds only when using them.
> 
> For each qp enabled for the first time, a tapfd was created via
> TUNSETIFF with unneeded additional steps (see below) and then mapped to
> the right qp in the vhost-net backend.
> Unneeded steps (as long as it has been done once for the port):
> - tap features were queried while this is a constant on a running
>    system,
> - the device name in DPDK was updated,
> - the mac address of the tap was set,
> 
> On subsequent qps state change, the vhost-net backend fd mapping was
> updated and the associated queue/tapfd were disabled/enabled via
> TUNSETQUEUE.
> 
> Now, this patch simplifies the whole logic by keeping all tapfds opened
> and in enabled state (from the tap point of view) at all time.
> 
> Unused ioctl defines are removed.
> 
> Tap features are validated earlier to fail initialisation asap.
> Tap name discovery and mac address configuration are moved when
> configuring qp 0.
> 
> To support attaching to mono queue tap, the virtio-user driver now tries
> to attach in multi queue first, then fallbacks to mono queue.
> 
> Finally (but this is more for consistency), VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ feature is
> exposed only if the underlying tap supports multi queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - refactored tap_open() following Olivier comment and updated log
>    messages level accordingly,
> - added more error logs,
> 
> ---
> 
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel.c |  92 +++++----
>   .../net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel_tap.c | 180 +++++++++---------
>   .../net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel_tap.h |  16 +-
>   3 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)
> 

Nice, thanks for the detailed commit message.

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-17  9:33 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " David Marchand
2021-09-23 15:39 ` Olivier Matz
2021-09-23 16:45   ` David Marchand
2021-09-28  8:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " David Marchand
2021-09-28 10:12   ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2021-09-29 13:19   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-09-30  9:27     ` Maxime Coquelin
2021-09-28 15:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Maxime Coquelin

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