From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"tiwei.bie@intel.com" <tiwei.bie@intel.com>,
"zhihong.wang@intel.com" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>,
"amorenoz@redhat.com" <amorenoz@redhat.com>,
"xiao.w.wang@intel.com" <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"jfreimann@redhat.com" <jfreimann@redhat.com>
Cc: "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>, Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Introduce Virtio vDPA driver
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:44:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR0502MB3795900F00F4150392B4B2EEC3B60@AM0PR0502MB3795.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e32aa43e-d90e-1cf0-d3ca-4f6d1a281fcd@redhat.com>
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:46 AM, Maxime Coquelin:
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Introduce Virtio vDPA driver
>
> Hi Shahaf,
>
> On 9/9/19 1:55 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:00 AM, Maxime Coquelin:
> >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Introduce Virtio vDPA driver
> >>
> >> vDPA allows to offload Virtio Datapath processing by supported NICs,
> >> like IFCVF for example.
> >>
> >> The control path has to be handled by a dedicated vDPA driver, so
> >> that it can translate Vhost-user protocol requests to proprietary
> >> NICs registers accesses.
> >>
> >> This driver is the vDPA driver for Virtio devices, meaning that
> >> Vhost-user protocol requests get translated to Virtio registers
> >> accesses as per defined in the Virtio spec.
> >>
> >> Basically, it can be used within a guest with a para-virtualized
> >> Virtio-net device, or even with a full Virtio HW offload NIC directly on
> host.
> >
> > Can you elaborate more on the use cases to use such driver?
> >
> > 1. If the underlying HW can support full virtio device, why we need to work
> w/ it w/ vDPA mode? Why not providing it to the VM as passthrough one?
> > 2. why it is preferable to work w/ virtio device as the backend device to be
> used w/ vDPA v.s. working w/ the underlying HW VF?
>
>
> IMHO, I see two uses cases where it can make sense to use vDPA with a full
> offload HW device:
> 1. Live-migration support: It makes it possible to switch to rings
> processing in SW during the migration as Virtio HH does not support
> dirty pages logging.
Can you elaborate why specifically using virtio_vdpa PMD enables this SW relay during migration?
e.g. the vdpa PMD of intel that runs on top of VF do that today as well.
>
> 2. Can be used to provide a single standard interface (the vhost-user
> socket) to containers in the scope of CNFs. Doing so, the container
> does not need to be modified, whatever the HW NIC: Virtio datapath
> offload only, full Virtio offload, or no offload at all. In the
> latter case, it would not be optimal as it implies forwarding between
> the Vhost PMD and the HW NIC PMD but it would work.
It is not clear to me the interface map in such system.
From what I understand the container will have virtio-user i/f and the host will have virtio i/f. then the virtio i/f can be programmed to work w/ vDPA or not.
For full emulation I guess you will need to expose the netdev of the fully emulated virtio device to the container?
Am trying to map when it is beneficial to use this virtio_vdpa PMD and when it is better to use the vendor specific vDPA PMD on top of VF.
>
> > Is nested virtualization is what you have in mind?
>
> For the para-virtualized virtio device, either nested virtualization, or
> container running within the guest.
>
> Maxime
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-10 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-29 7:59 [dpdk-stable] " Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 01/15] vhost: remove vhost kernel header inclusion Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:03 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:24 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 02/15] vhost: configure vDPA as soon as the device is ready Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 8:34 ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-09-02 9:02 ` Wang, Xiao W
2019-09-03 7:34 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 10:58 ` Wang, Xiao W
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 03/15] net/virtio: move control path fonctions in virtqueue file Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:05 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 04/15] net/virtio: add virtio PCI subsystem device ID declaration Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:14 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:25 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 05/15] net/virtio: save notify bar ID in virtio HW struct Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:17 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 06/15] net/virtio: add skeleton for virtio vDPA driver Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:27 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:25 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 07/15] net/virtio: add vDPA ops to get number of queue Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:32 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 08/15] net/virtio: add virtio vDPA op to get features Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:43 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:27 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 09/15] net/virtio: add virtio vDPA op to get protocol features Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 6:46 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 10/15] net/virtio: add vDPA op to configure and start the device Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 5:30 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:40 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 8:49 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-04 4:06 ` Jason Wang
2019-09-04 6:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-05 2:57 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 11/15] net/virtio: add vDPA op to stop and close " Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-02 7:07 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:30 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 12/15] net/virtio: add vDPA op to set features Maxime Coquelin
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 13/15] net/virtio: add vDPA ops to get VFIO FDs Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 4:47 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 7:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 14/15] net/virtio: add vDPA op to get notification area Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 5:02 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-09-03 7:36 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-03 8:40 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-08-29 8:00 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 15/15] doc: add documentation for Virtio vDPA driver Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-09 11:55 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Introduce " Shahaf Shuler
2019-09-10 7:46 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-10 13:44 ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2019-09-10 13:56 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-09-11 5:15 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-09-11 7:15 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-10-24 6:32 ` [dpdk-stable] " Maxime Coquelin
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