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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Vhost: fix mq=on but VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ not negotiated
@ 2017-12-04 14:08 Maxime Coquelin
  2017-12-04 14:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vhost: prevent features to be changed while device is running Maxime Coquelin
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Maxime Coquelin @ 2017-12-04 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev, yliu, tiwei.bie, jianfeng.tan; +Cc: lprosek, lersek, Maxime Coquelin

Having QEMU started with mq=on but guest driver not negotiating
VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ feature ends up in the vhost device to never
start. Indeed, more queues are created in the vhost backend than
configured.

Guest drivers known to not advertise the VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ feature are
iPXE and OVMF Virtio-net drivers.

Queues are created because before starting the guest, QEMU sends
VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_CALL requests for all queues declared in QEMU
command line. Also, once Virtio features negotiated, QEMU sends
VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE requests to disable all but the first
queue pair.

This series fixes this by destroying all but first queue pair in
the backend if VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ isn't negotiated. First patches
makes sure that VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES request doesn't change
Virtio features while the device is running, which should never
happen as per the Virtio spec. This helps to make sure vitqueues
aren't destroyed while being processed, but also protect from
other illegal features changes (e.g. VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF).

Maxime Coquelin (4):
  vhost: prevent features to be changed while device is running
  vhost: propagate VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES handling error
  vhost: extract virtqueue cleaning and freeing functions
  vhost: destroy unused virtqueues when multiqueue not negotiated

 lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c      | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h      |  3 +++
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

-- 
2.14.3

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2017-12-04 14:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vhost: prevent features to be changed while device is running Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-04 14:17   ` Ladi Prosek
2017-12-04 14:20     ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-04 14:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] vhost: propagate VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES handling error Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-04 14:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] vhost: extract virtqueue cleaning and freeing functions Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-04 14:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] vhost: destroy unused virtqueues when multiqueue not negotiated Maxime Coquelin
2017-12-04 14:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Vhost: fix mq=on but VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ " Ladi Prosek
2017-12-04 14:48   ` Maxime Coquelin

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