From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Pattan, Reshma" <reshma.pattan@intel.com>,
"viktorin@rehivetech.com" <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/12] eal: add channel for primary/secondary communication
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:07:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a82f1a15-8081-c383-27a0-55eda58d3e36@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <992217df-6bfb-063c-e3e6-11930c5108da@intel.com>
On 9/29/2017 6:00 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 29-Sep-17 2:03 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
>> + Reshma and Jan.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Burakov, Anatoly
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:30 PM
>>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/12] eal: add channel for
>>> primary/secondary communication
>>>
>>> On 28-Sep-17 4:01 PM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>>>> Hi Jianfeng,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Tan, Jianfeng
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 2:56 PM
>>>>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>>>>> Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Ananyev,
>>> Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
>>>>> <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>; thomas@monjalon.net;
>>> yliu@fridaylinux.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; mtetsuyah@gmail.com;
>>>>> Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Tan, Jianfeng
>>> <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH v2 07/12] eal: add channel for primary/secondary
>>> communication
>>>>>
>>>>> Previouly, there is only one way for primary/secondary to exchange
>>>>> messages, that is, primary process writes info into some predefind
>>>>> file, and secondary process reads info out. That cannot address
>>>>> the requirements:
>>>>> a. Secondary wants to send info to primary, for example,
>>>>> secondary
>>>>> would like to send request (about some specific vdev to
>>>>> primary).
>>>>> b. Sending info at any time, instead of just initialization time.
>>>>> c. Share FDs with the other side, for vdev like vhost, related
>>>>> FDs
>>>>> (memory region, kick) should be shared.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch proposes to create a communication channel, as an unix
>>>>> socket connection, for above requirements. Primary will listen on
>>>>> the unix socket; secondary will connect this socket to talk.
>>>>>
>>>>> Three new APIs are added:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. rte_eal_mp_action_register is used to register an action,
>>>>> indexed by a string; if the calling component wants to
>>>>> response the messages from the corresponding component in
>>>>> its primary process or secondary processes.
>>>>> 2. rte_eal_mp_action_unregister is used to unregister the action
>>>>> if the calling component does not want to response the
>>>>> messages.
>>>>> 3. rte_eal_mp_sendmsg is used to send a message.
>>>>
>>>> I think we already have similar channel in librte_pdump().
>>>> Also it seems like eal_vfio also has it's own socket to communicate
>>> between mp/sp.
>>>> Could we probably make it generic - so same code (and socket) be
>>>> used by
>>> all such places.
>>>> Konstantin
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed, however looking at this, it's already a generic-enough
>>> solution,
>>> and other places could be fixed to use this in later releases.
>>
>> Yes, to provide a generic communication way, instead of one channel
>> for each subsystem, is the goal of this patch.
>>
>> Reshma and Jan, can I ask comment from you to have a look if the way
>> of this patch is generic enough to cover pdump and vfio-sync's
>> requirement?
>>
>> Possible limitation of this patch (so far) is that it only provides
>> an async way for request/response, do we need synchronous way?
>>
>>> That said, i believe this particular part of the patchset should go
>>> in as a
>>> separate patchset and more design consideration and input from others.
>>
>> OK, let's collect more info here, and then take out this patch out as
>> a separate patch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jianfeng
>>
> Hi Jianfeng,
>
> Yes, i believe VFIO does need synchronous communcation, because it
> relies on passing fd's from primary to secondary, on request. It could
> be rewritten to be asynchronous, similarly to how you handle vdevs
> here, but as it stands, it assumes synchronous communication.
>
Good to know, thanks Anatoly. Even it can be rewritten to do in asyn
way, do we need to propose sync way now?
Thanks,
Jianfeng
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2017-08-25 9:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] support to run vdev in the secondary process Jianfeng Tan
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2017-09-18 11:48 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
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2017-08-29 12:50 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-08-29 22:25 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/12] crypto: move vdev helper functions into dedicated file Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-18 11:51 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/12] vdev: move to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-08-29 13:04 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-08-29 22:47 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-18 11:47 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-09-19 6:01 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/12] bus/vdev: change log type from EAL to PMD Jianfeng Tan
2017-08-29 12:54 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-08-29 22:27 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/12] eal: add channel for primary/secondary communication Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-18 13:49 ` Jiayu Hu
2017-09-21 6:11 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-20 3:00 ` Jiayu Hu
2017-09-21 6:53 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-27 12:19 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-28 13:50 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-29 1:24 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-29 10:09 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-09-29 10:25 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/12] bus/vdev: scan and probe vdev in secondary processes Jianfeng Tan
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/12] ethdev: support attach vdev in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/12] vhost: allocate virtio_net in memzone Jianfeng Tan
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/12] vhost: support to kick in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-21 3:33 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-21 7:04 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-21 9:17 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-22 2:30 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-27 9:36 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-28 5:10 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 8:09 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-30 8:18 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-30 10:50 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/12] net/vhost: support to run in the " Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-21 4:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-08-25 9:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/12] examples/helloworld: do not exit automatically Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-18 11:44 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-09-19 5:07 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] support to run vdev in the secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/12] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/12] eal: avoid calling rte_vdev_init() Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/12] cryptodev: avoid dependency on rte_vdev.h Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-05 13:13 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-09 1:04 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/12] bus/fslmc: introduce RTE_LOGTYPE_BUS for bus drivers Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/12] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/12] bus/vdev: normalize log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/12] eal: add channel for primary/secondary communication Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 15:01 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-09-28 15:29 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-09-29 1:03 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-29 10:00 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-09-30 4:07 ` Tan, Jianfeng [this message]
2017-10-02 10:08 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2017-10-05 12:01 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-09 1:27 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/12] bus/vdev: scan and probe vdev in secondary processes Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-05 13:04 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-09 1:08 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/12] ethdev: support attach vdev in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-05 14:26 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-09 0:56 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/12] vhost: allocate virtio_net in memzone Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/12] vhost: support to kick in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-28 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/12] net/vhost: support to run in the " Jianfeng Tan
2017-09-29 8:28 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-30 4:03 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-30 8:16 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-30 10:06 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-30 11:49 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-10-01 23:48 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-30 8:23 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-09-30 10:53 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-09-30 11:34 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-10-01 23:46 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] eal: avoid calling rte_vdev_init() Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] bus: introduce RTE_LOGTYPE_BUS for bus drivers Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 3:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] bus/vdev: normalize log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] bus/vdev: scan and probe vdev in secondary processes Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] ethdev: support attach vdev in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] vhost: allocate virtio_net in memzone Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] vhost: support to kick in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 10:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] net/vhost: support to run in the " Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] move vdev into drivers/bus Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] bus: introduce new log type for bus drivers Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-11 6:54 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-11 10:42 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-11 11:20 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-12 2:14 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-09 11:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] bus/vdev: normalize log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-12 8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-12 8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-12 10:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-12 8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-12 8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-12 8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/4] ethdev: support attach vdev in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/4] vhost: allocate virtio_net in memzone Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/4] vhost: support to kick in secondary process Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 2:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/4] net/vhost: support to run in the " Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 8:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-13 11:49 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-13 11:51 ` Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 11:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-23 10:06 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-10-13 11:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-13 11:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-23 14:34 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-10-13 11:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-25 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-25 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-25 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-25 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-25 21:32 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2017-10-25 23:03 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-10-25 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v0 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 7:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-27 8:19 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-27 8:53 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-27 16:57 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-10-27 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-27 3:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-30 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-30 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-30 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-10-30 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 2:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-07 6:21 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-10-30 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 6:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 6:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/4] cryptodev: remove crypto vdev init API Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 6:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 2/4] eal: remove dependency on vdev Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 6:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 3/4] bus/vdev: move to vdev bus to drivers/bus Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 6:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 4/4] bus/vdev: change log type Jianfeng Tan
2017-11-07 15:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 0/4] move vdev into drivers/bus Thomas Monjalon
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