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From: "Gaëtan Rivet" <grive@u256.net>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, matan@mellanox.com, xiao.w.wang@intel.com,
	zhihong.wang@intel.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com,
	chenbo.xia@intel.com, david.marchand@redhat.com,
	amorenoz@redhat.com, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com,
	viacheslavo@mellanox.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com,
	sachin.saxena@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/14] vDPA API and framework rework
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:38:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200612093829.6l43srtrbi7sdbfe@u256.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200611213748.1967029-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Hello Maxime,

On 11/06/20 23:37 +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This series aims to rework the vDPA framework and
> its API to better fit into the DPDK device model
> and also be more easily consumable by applications.
> 
> Main changes are creating a device class for vDPA,
> which enables applications to iterate vDPA devices
> in a generic way:
> 
> RTE_DEV_FOREACH(dev, "class=vdpa", it) {...}
> 

That's neat, I was wondering if the class layer would become useful
someday.

> Also the notion of vDPA device ID is replaced
> with both application & drivers using the
> rte_vdpa_device as reference. Doing that also
> made possible to store devices references into
> a linked list instead of a static array. Last
> patch makes the rte_vdpa_device structure
> content opaque to the applications, creating
> a clear barrier between application visible
> API and drivers visble ones.
> 
> The first two patches fixes issues in some
> busses iterators, causing segmentation faults
> when iterating only on a device class.
> 
> While reviewing, if you notice further possible
> improvements, please let me know. Target is to
> remove the experimental tag from vDPA APIs in
> next LTS release.
> 
> Thanks to David for giving me some ideas of
> improvements!
> 

I can't really comment on vhost parts and vdpa implems,
but overall this seems a good idea to me.

> Maxime Coquelin (14):
>   bus/dpaa: fix null pointer dereference
>   bus/fslmc: fix null pointer dereference
>   vhost: introduce vDPA devices class
>   vhost: make vDPA framework bus agnostic
>   vhost: replace device ID in vDPA ops
>   vhost: replace vDPA device ID in Vhost
>   vhost: replace device ID in applications
>   vhost: remove useless vDPA API
>   vhost: use linked-list for vDPA devices
>   vhost: introduce wrappers for some vDPA ops
>   examples/vdpa: use new wrappers instead of ops
>   examples/vdpa: remove useless device count
>   vhost: remove vDPA device count API
>   vhost: split vDPA header file
> 
>  drivers/bus/dpaa/dpaa_bus.c            |   5 +
>  drivers/bus/fslmc/fslmc_bus.c          |   5 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c          |  84 ++++-----
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c          |  85 +++++----
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h          |   5 +-
>  examples/vdpa/main.c                   | 108 +++++------
>  lib/librte_vhost/Makefile              |   3 +-
>  lib/librte_vhost/meson.build           |   3 +-
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vdpa.h            | 172 ++++--------------
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vdpa_dev.h        | 135 ++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h           |  20 ++-
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |  11 +-
>  lib/librte_vhost/socket.c              |  48 ++---
>  lib/librte_vhost/vdpa.c                | 238 ++++++++++++++++---------
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c               |  19 +-
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h               |   9 +-
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c          |  28 +--
>  17 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 433 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/librte_vhost/rte_vdpa_dev.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 

-- 
Gaëtan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-12  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-11 21:37 Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/14] bus/dpaa: fix null pointer dereference Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-12  9:48   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/14] bus/fslmc: " Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/14] vhost: introduce vDPA devices class Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-12 12:37   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-06-15  9:15     ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/14] vhost: make vDPA framework bus agnostic Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-12 12:46   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-06-15  9:17     ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-19 11:14   ` Adrian Moreno
2020-06-19 15:11     ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-22  9:49       ` Adrian Moreno
2020-06-22 12:34         ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/14] vhost: replace device ID in vDPA ops Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/14] vhost: replace vDPA device ID in Vhost Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/14] vhost: replace device ID in applications Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/14] vhost: remove useless vDPA API Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/14] vhost: use linked-list for vDPA devices Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/14] vhost: introduce wrappers for some vDPA ops Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/14] examples/vdpa: use new wrappers instead of ops Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/14] examples/vdpa: remove useless device count Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/14] vhost: remove vDPA device count API Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-11 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/14] vhost: split vDPA header file Maxime Coquelin
2020-06-12  9:38 ` Gaëtan Rivet [this message]

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