Re: [PATCH V4 linux-next 00/12] VDPA support for Mellanox ConnectX devices

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:20:36PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> please note that this series depends on mlx5 core device driver patches
> in mlx5-next branch in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git.

Thanks! OK so what's the plan for merging this?
Do patches at least build well enough that I can push them
upstream? Or do they have to go on top of the mellanox tree?


> git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git mlx5-next 
> 
> They also depend Jason Wang's patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/1/301

The ones you included, right?

> Jason, I had to resolve some conflicts so I would appreciate of you can verify
> that it is ok.
> 
> The following series of patches provide VDPA support for Mellanox
> devices. The supported devices are ConnectX6 DX and newer.
> 
> Currently, only a network driver is implemented; future patches will
> introduce a block device driver. iperf performance on a single queue is
> around 12 Gbps.  Future patches will introduce multi queue support.
> 
> The files are organized in such a way that code that can be used by
> different VDPA implementations will be placed in a common are resides in
> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core.
> 
> Only virtual functions are currently supported. Also, certain firmware
> capabilities must be set to enable the driver. Physical functions (PFs)
> are skipped by the driver.
> 
> To make use of the VDPA net driver, one must load mlx5_vdpa. In such
> case, VFs will be operated by the VDPA driver. Although one can see a
> regular instance of a network driver on the VF, the VDPA driver takes
> precedence over the NIC driver, steering-wize.
> 
> Currently, the device/interface infrastructure in mlx5_core is used to
> probe drivers. Future patches will introduce virtbus as a means to
> register devices and drivers and VDPA will be adapted to it.
> 
> The mlx5 mode of operation required to support VDPA is switchdev mode.
> Once can use Linux or OVS bridge to take care of layer 2 switching.
> 
> In order to provide virtio networking to a guest, an updated version of
> qemu is required. This version has been tested by the following quemu
> version:
> 
> url: https://github.com/jasowang/qemu.git
> branch: vdpa
> Commit ID: 6f4e59b807db
> 
> 
> V2->V3
> Fix makefile to use include path relative to the root of the kernel
> 
> V3-V4
> Rebase Jason's patches on linux-next branch
> Fix krobot error on mips arch
> Make use of the free callback to destroy resoruces on unload
> Use VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM instead of legacy VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM
> Add empty implementations for get_vq_notification() and get_vq_irq()
> 
> 
> Eli Cohen (6):
>   net/vdpa: Use struct for set/get vq state
>   vdpa: Modify get_vq_state() to return error code
>   vdpa/mlx5: Add hardware descriptive header file
>   vdpa/mlx5: Add support library for mlx5 VDPA implementation
>   vdpa/mlx5: Add shared memory registration code
>   vdpa/mlx5: Add VDPA driver for supported mlx5 devices
> 
> Jason Wang (5):
>   vhost-vdpa: refine ioctl pre-processing
>   vhost: generialize backend features setting/getting
>   vhost-vdpa: support get/set backend features
>   vhost-vdpa: support IOTLB batching hints
>   vdpasim: support batch updating
> 
> Max Gurtovoy (1):
>   vdpa: remove hard coded virtq num
> 
>  drivers/vdpa/Kconfig                   |   19 +
>  drivers/vdpa/Makefile                  |    1 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.c        |    4 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_base.h        |    4 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c        |   13 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/Makefile             |    4 +
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h     |   91 ++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa_ifc.h |  168 ++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c            |  484 ++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c     |  284 ++++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/main.c           |   76 +
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c      | 1965 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.h      |   24 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c                    |    3 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c       |   53 +-
>  drivers/vhost/net.c                    |   18 +-
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c                   |   76 +-
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c                  |   15 +
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h                  |    2 +
>  include/linux/vdpa.h                   |   24 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/vhost.h             |    2 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h       |   11 +
>  22 files changed, 3284 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa_ifc.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/main.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.h
> 
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> 2.26.0