Re: [PATCH] virtio: add new driver for crypto devices

[Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>]

Hi Fan,

On 2017/11/28 0:47, Zhang, Roy Fan wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> Thanks for contributing to DPDK.
>
> The code has been tested and works fine.
>
> A few comments:
>
> 1. Could you split the patch into a patchset, as suggested in contribution guide in http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html, section 5.4?
> 2. Please update doc/guides/cryptodevs for describing your virtio crypto PMD.
> 3. Please update doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18.02.
> 4. One more comment inline
>

For DPDK, I'm a newbie. Thanks for testing and pointing these steps
out, will fix them in V2.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Zhou [mailto:jianjay.zhou@huawei.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 5:10 PM
>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>> Cc: yliu@fridaylinux.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com;
>> arei.gonglei@huawei.com; Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>; Zeng,
>> Xin <xin.zeng@intel.com>; weidong.huang@huawei.com;
>> wangxinxin.wang@huawei.com; longpeng2@huawei.com;
>> jianjay.zhou@huawei.com
>> Subject: [PATCH] virtio: add new driver for crypto devices
>> +	/*
>> +	 * malloc memory to store indirect vring_desc entries, including
>> +	 * ctrl request, cipher key, auth key, session input and desc vring
>> +	 */
>> +	desc_offset = ctrl_req_length + cipher_keylen + auth_keylen
>> +		+ input_length;
>
> Instead of using rte_malloc() as below, you could pre-allocate a mempool and use
> rte_mempool_get() or rte_mempool_get_bulk() to get these memory to store descriptors.
> You can use rte_mempool_virt2iova() to obtain the physical address of this memory. This shall
> have better performance.

I will have a try.

Regards,
Jay

>
>> +	virt_addr_started = rte_malloc(NULL,
>> +		desc_offset +
>> NUM_ENTRY_VIRTIO_CRYPTO_SYM_CREATE_SESSION
>> +			* sizeof(struct vring_desc), RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
>> +	if (virt_addr_started == NULL) {
>> +		PMD_SESSION_LOG(ERR, "not enough heap memory");
>> +		return -ENOSPC;
>> +	}
>> +	phys_addr_started = rte_malloc_virt2phy(virt_addr_started);
>
> .
>