From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: fengchengwen <fengchengwen@huawei.com>,
"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
"Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"Ferruh Yigit" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Nipun Gupta" <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>,
"Hemant Agrawal" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
"Maxime Coquelin" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"Honnappa Nagarahalli" <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>,
"Jerin Jacob" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
"Satananda Burla" <sburla@marvell.com>,
"Prasun Kapoor" <pkapoor@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] dmadev: introduce DMA device library
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:22:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBAE1M=JXAKt6VxZ3uOwyM3c04D9Kw556WtMeBHYhQx3ywJWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMsSxeIQvvcQoyp1@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:46 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 08:07:26PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 3:47 PM fengchengwen <fengchengwen@huawei.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2021/6/16 15:09, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > > >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> > > >> Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2021 18.39
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:22:07PM +0800, Chengwen Feng wrote:
> > > >>> This patch introduces 'dmadevice' which is a generic type of DMA
> > > >>> device.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The APIs of dmadev library exposes some generic operations which can
> > > >>> enable configuration and I/O with the DMA devices.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
> > > >>> ---
> > > >> Thanks for sending this.
> > > >>
> > > >> Of most interest to me right now are the key data-plane APIs. While we
> > > >> are
> > > >> still in the prototyping phase, below is a draft of what we are
> > > >> thinking
> > > >> for the key enqueue/perform_ops/completed_ops APIs.
> > > >>
> > > >> Some key differences I note in below vs your original RFC:
> > > >> * Use of void pointers rather than iova addresses. While using iova's
> > > >> makes
> > > >> sense in the general case when using hardware, in that it can work
> > > >> with
> > > >> both physical addresses and virtual addresses, if we change the APIs
> > > >> to use
> > > >> void pointers instead it will still work for DPDK in VA mode, while
> > > >> at the
> > > >> same time allow use of software fallbacks in error cases, and also a
> > > >> stub
> > > >> driver than uses memcpy in the background. Finally, using iova's
> > > >> makes the
> > > >> APIs a lot more awkward to use with anything but mbufs or similar
> > > >> buffers
> > > >> where we already have a pre-computed physical address.
> > > >> * Use of id values rather than user-provided handles. Allowing the
> > > >> user/app
> > > >> to manage the amount of data stored per operation is a better
> > > >> solution, I
> > > >> feel than proscribing a certain about of in-driver tracking. Some
> > > >> apps may
> > > >> not care about anything other than a job being completed, while other
> > > >> apps
> > > >> may have significant metadata to be tracked. Taking the user-context
> > > >> handles out of the API also makes the driver code simpler.
> > > >> * I've kept a single combined API for completions, which differs from
> > > >> the
> > > >> separate error handling completion API you propose. I need to give
> > > >> the
> > > >> two function approach a bit of thought, but likely both could work.
> > > >> If we
> > > >> (likely) never expect failed ops, then the specifics of error
> > > >> handling
> > > >> should not matter that much.
> > > >>
> > > >> For the rest, the control / setup APIs are likely to be rather
> > > >> uncontroversial, I suspect. However, I think that rather than xstats
> > > >> APIs,
> > > >> the library should first provide a set of standardized stats like
> > > >> ethdev
> > > >> does. If driver-specific stats are needed, we can add xstats later to
> > > >> the
> > > >> API.
> > > >>
> > > >> Appreciate your further thoughts on this, thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards,
> > > >> /Bruce
> > > >
> > > > I generally agree with Bruce's points above.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to share a couple of ideas for further discussion:
> >
> >
> > I believe some of the other requirements and comments for generic DMA will be
> >
> > 1) Support for the _channel_, Each channel may have different
> > capabilities and functionalities.
> > Typical cases are, each channel have separate source and destination
> > devices like
> > DMA between PCIe EP to Host memory, Host memory to Host memory, PCIe
> > EP to PCIe EP.
> > So we need some notion of the channel in the specification.
> >
>
> Can you share a bit more detail on what constitutes a channel in this case?
> Is it equivalent to a device queue (which we are flattening to individual
> devices in this API), or to a specific configuration on a queue?
It not a queue. It is one of the attributes for transfer.
I.e in the same queue, for a given transfer it can specify the
different "source" and "destination" device.
Like CPU to Sound card, CPU to network card etc.
>
> > 2) I assume current data plane APIs are not thread-safe. Is it right?
> >
> Yes.
>
> >
> > 3) Cookie scheme outlined earlier looks good to me. Instead of having
> > generic dequeue() API
> >
> > 4) Can split the rte_dmadev_enqueue_copy(uint16_t dev_id, void * src,
> > void * dst, unsigned int length);
> > to two stage API like, Where one will be used in fastpath and other
> > one will use used in slowpath.
> >
> > - slowpath API will for take channel and take other attributes for transfer
> >
> > Example syantx will be:
> >
> > struct rte_dmadev_desc {
> > channel id;
> > ops ; // copy, xor, fill etc
> > other arguments specific to dma transfer // it can be set
> > based on capability.
> >
> > };
> >
> > rte_dmadev_desc_t rte_dmadev_preprare(uint16_t dev_id, struct
> > rte_dmadev_desc *dec);
> >
> > - Fastpath takes arguments that need to change per transfer along with
> > slow-path handle.
> >
> > rte_dmadev_enqueue(uint16_t dev_id, void * src, void * dst, unsigned
> > int length, rte_dmadev_desc_t desc)
> >
> > This will help to driver to
> > -Former API form the device-specific descriptors in slow path for a
> > given channel and fixed attributes per transfer
> > -Later API blend "variable" arguments such as src, dest address with
> > slow-path created descriptors
> >
>
> This seems like an API for a context-aware device, where the channel is the
> config data/context that is preserved across operations - is that correct?
> At least from the Intel DMA accelerators side, we have no concept of this
> context, and each operation is completely self-described. The location or
> type of memory for copies is irrelevant, you just pass the src/dst
> addresses to reference.
it is not context-aware device. Each HW JOB is self-described.
You can view it different attributes of transfer.
>
> > The above will give better performance and is the best trade-off c
> > between performance and per transfer variables.
>
> We may need to have different APIs for context-aware and context-unaware
> processing, with which to use determined by the capabilities discovery.
> Given that for these DMA devices the offload cost is critical, more so than
> any other dev class I've looked at before, I'd like to avoid having APIs
> with extra parameters than need to be passed about since that just adds
> extra CPU cycles to the offload.
If driver does not support additional attributes and/or the
application does not need it, rte_dmadev_desc_t can be NULL.
So that it won't have any cost in the datapath. I think, we can go to
different API
cases if we can not abstract problems without performance impact.
Otherwise, it will be too much
pain for applications.
Just to understand, I think, we need to HW capabilities and how to
have a common API.
I assume HW will have some HW JOB descriptors which will be filled in
SW and submitted to HW.
In our HW, Job descriptor has the following main elements
- Channel // We don't expect the application to change per transfer
- Source address - It can be scatter-gather too - Will be changed per transfer
- Destination address - It can be scatter-gather too - Will be changed
per transfer
- Transfer Length - - It can be scatter-gather too - Will be changed
per transfer
- IOVA address where HW post Job completion status PER Job descriptor
- Will be changed per transfer
- Another sideband information related to channel // We don't expect
the application to change per transfer
- As an option, Job completion can be posted as an event to
rte_event_queue too // We don't expect the application to change per
transfer
@Richardson, Bruce @fengchengwen @Hemant Agrawal
Could you share the options for your HW descriptors which you are
planning to expose through API like above so that we can easily
converge on fastpath API
>
> /Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 13:22 Chengwen Feng
2021-06-15 16:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-16 7:09 ` Morten Brørup
2021-06-16 10:17 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-16 12:09 ` Morten Brørup
2021-06-16 13:06 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-16 14:37 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-17 9:15 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-18 5:52 ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2021-06-18 9:41 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-22 17:25 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 3:30 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-23 7:21 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 9:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-23 11:40 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 14:19 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-24 6:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 9:41 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-23 10:10 ` Morten Brørup
2021-06-23 11:46 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 14:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-18 9:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-22 17:31 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-22 19:17 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-23 7:00 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-16 9:41 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-16 17:31 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-16 18:08 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-16 19:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-17 7:42 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-17 8:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-18 5:16 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-18 10:03 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-22 17:36 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-17 9:48 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-17 11:02 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-17 14:18 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-18 8:52 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-18 9:30 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-22 17:51 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 3:50 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-23 11:00 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 14:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-24 12:19 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-26 3:59 ` [dpdk-dev] dmadev discussion summary fengchengwen
2021-06-28 10:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-28 11:14 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-06-28 12:53 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-02 13:31 ` fengchengwen
2021-07-01 15:01 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-01 16:33 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-02 7:39 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-02 10:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-07-02 13:45 ` fengchengwen
2021-07-02 14:57 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-03 0:32 ` fengchengwen
2021-07-03 8:53 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-03 9:08 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-03 12:24 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-04 7:43 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-05 10:28 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-06 7:11 ` fengchengwen
2021-07-03 9:45 ` fengchengwen
2021-07-03 12:00 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-04 7:34 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-07-02 7:07 ` Liang Ma
2021-07-02 13:59 ` fengchengwen
2021-06-24 7:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] dmadev: introduce DMA device library Jerin Jacob
2021-06-24 7:59 ` Morten Brørup
2021-06-24 8:05 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-23 5:34 ` Hu, Jiayu
2021-06-23 11:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-16 2:17 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-16 8:04 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-16 8:16 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-16 12:14 ` David Marchand
2021-06-16 13:11 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-06-16 16:48 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-06-16 19:10 ` Bruce Richardson
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