Re: [PATCH V8 0/6] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support

Alex Williamson
2019-11-06T19:03:41Z

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:56:46 +0800
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2019/11/6 上午1:58, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:32:34 +0800
> > Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all:
> >>
> >> There are hardwares that can do virtio datapath offloading while
> >> having its own control path. This path tries to implement a mdev based
> >> unified API to support using kernel virtio driver to drive those
> >> devices. This is done by introducing a new mdev transport for virtio
> >> (virtio_mdev) and register itself as a new kind of mdev driver. Then
> >> it provides a unified way for kernel virtio driver to talk with mdev
> >> device implementation.
> >>
> >> Though the series only contains kernel driver support, the goal is to
> >> make the transport generic enough to support userspace drivers. This
> >> means vhost-mdev[1] could be built on top as well by resuing the
> >> transport.
> >>
> >> A sample driver is also implemented which simulate a virito-net
> >> loopback ethernet device on top of vringh + workqueue. This could be
> >> used as a reference implementation for real hardware driver.
> >>
> >> Also a real ICF VF driver was also posted here[2] which is a good
> >> reference for vendors who is interested in their own virtio datapath
> >> offloading product.
> >>
> >> Consider mdev framework only support VFIO device and driver right now,
> >> this series also extend it to support other types. This is done
> >> through introducing class id to the device and pairing it with
> >> id_talbe claimed by the driver. On top, this seris also decouple
> >> device specific parents ops out of the common ones.
> >>
> >> Pktgen test was done with virito-net + mvnet loop back device.
> >>
> >> Please review.
> >>
> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/31/440
> >> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/15/1226
> >>
> >> Changes from V7:
> >> - drop {set|get}_mdev_features for virtio
> >> - typo and comment style fixes
> >
> > Seems we're nearly there, all the remaining comments are relatively
> > superficial, though I would appreciate a v9 addressing them as well as
> > the checkpatch warnings:
> >
> > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/68977/
>
>
> Will do.
>
> Btw, do you plan to merge vhost-mdev patch on top? Or you prefer it to
> go through Michael's vhost tree?

I can include it if you wish. The mdev changes are isolated enough in
that patch that I wouldn't presume it, but clearly it would require
less merge coordination to drop it in my tree. Let me know. Thanks,

Alex