Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 resend 00/12] vhost-user multiple queues enabling

[Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>]

On 09/18/2015 06:10 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> This patch set enables vhost-user multiple queues.

It seems the series does not apply on master, did you use a different branch or tag?

Thanks,
Marcel

>
> Overview
> ========
>
> It depends on some QEMU patches that, hopefully, will be merged soon.
> Those qemu patches introduce some new vhost-user messages, for vhost-user
> mq enabling negotiation. Here is the main negotiation steps (Qemu
> as master, and DPDK vhost-user as slave):
>
> - Master queries features by VHOST_USER_GET_FEATURES from slave
>
> - Check if VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES exist. If not, mq is not
>    supported. (check patch 1 for why VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES
>    is introduced)
>
> - Master then sends another command, VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM, for
>    querying how many queues the slave supports.
>
>    Master will compare the result with the requested queue number.
>    Qemu exits if the former is smaller.
>
> - Master then tries to initiate all queue pairs by sending some vhost
>    user commands, including VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_CALL, which will
>    trigger the slave to do related vring setup, such as vring allocation.
>
>
> Till now, all necessary initiation and negotiation are done. And master
> could send another message, VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE, to enable/disable
> a specific queue dynamically later.
>
>
> Patchset
> ========
>
> Patch 1-7 are all prepare works for enabling mq; they are all atomic
> changes, which is designed to not break anything.
>
> Patch 8 acutally enables mq feature, by setting two key feature flags.
>
> Patch 9-12 are for demostrating the mq feature.
>
>
> Testing
> =======
>
> Host side
> ----------
>
> - # Start vhost-switch
>
>    sudo mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
>    sudo modprobe uio
>    sudo insmod $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET/kmod/igb_uio.ko
>
>    sudo $RTE_SDK/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind igb_uio 0000:08:00.0
>
>    sudo $RTE_SDK/examples/vhost/build/vhost-switch -c 0xf0 -n 4     \
>         --huge-dir /mnt/huge --socket-mem 2048,0 -- -p 1 --vm2vm 0  \
>         --dev-basename usvhost --rxq 2
>
>    # Above common generates a usvhost socket file at PWD. You could also
>    # specify "--stats 1" option to enable stats dumping.
>
>
>
> - # start qemu
>
>
>    sudo sudo mount -t hugetlbfs nodev $HOME/hugetlbfs
>    $QEMU_DIR/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -m 4G \
>          -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4G,mem-path=$HOME/hugetlbfs,share=on \
> 	-numa node,memdev=mem -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/path/to/usvhost \
> 	-netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=2     \
> 	-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on,vectors=6,mac=52:54:00:12:34:58,csum=off,gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off,guest_ecn=off \
> 	-hda $HOME/iso/fc-22-x86_64.img -smp 10 -cpu core2duo,+sse3,+sse4.1,+sse4.2
>
>
> Guest side
> ----------
>
>     modprobe uio
>     insmod $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET/kmod/igb_uio.ko
>     echo 1024 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
>     ./tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind igb_uio 00:03.0
>
>     $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -c 1f -n 4 -- --rxq=2 --txq=2 \
>          --nb-cores=4 -i --disable-hw-vlan --txqflags 0xf00
>
>     > set fwd mac
>     > start tx_first
>
>
> After those setups, you then could use packet generator for packet tx/rx testing.
>
> ---
> Changchun Ouyang (7):
>    vhost: rxtx: prepare work for multiple queue support
>    vhost: add VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE message
>    virtio: resolve for control queue
>    vhost: add API bind a virtq to a specific core
>    ixgbe: support VMDq RSS in non-SRIOV environment
>    examples/vhost: demonstrate the usage of vhost mq feature
>    examples/vhost: add per queue stats
>
> Yuanhan Liu (5):
>    vhost-user: add protocol features support
>    vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM message
>    vhost: vring queue setup for multiple queue support
>    vhost-user: handle VHOST_USER_RESET_OWNER correctly
>    vhost-user: enable vhost-user multiple queue
>
>   drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c                |  86 +++++-
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c            |  12 +-
>   examples/vhost/main.c                         | 420 +++++++++++++++++---------
>   examples/vhost/main.h                         |   3 +-
>   lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c                 |  11 +
>   lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map        |   7 +
>   lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h             |  30 +-
>   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c                 |  56 +++-
>   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/vhost-net-user.c  |  27 +-
>   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/vhost-net-user.h  |   4 +
>   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/virtio-net-user.c |  79 +++--
>   lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/virtio-net-user.h |  10 +
>   lib/librte_vhost/virtio-net.c                 | 158 +++++++---
>   13 files changed, 659 insertions(+), 244 deletions(-)
>