Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Implement vdpasim stop operation

Jason Wang
2022-06-01T02:45:21Z

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 4:19 AM Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2022 11:39 PM
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:56 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 12:54:32PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > From: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2022 8:44 AM
> > > >
> > > > > Implement stop operation for vdpa_sim devices, so vhost-vdpa will
> > > > > offer
> > > > >
> > > > > that backend feature and userspace can effectively stop the device.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This is a must before get virtqueue indexes (base) for live
> > > > > migration,
> > > > >
> > > > > since the device could modify them after userland gets them. There
> > > > > are
> > > > >
> > > > > individual ways to perform that action for some devices
> > > > >
> > > > > (VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND, VHOST_VSOCK_SET_RUNNING, ...) but
> > there
> > > > > was no
> > > > >
> > > > > way to perform it for any vhost device (and, in particular, vhost-vdpa).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > After the return of ioctl with stop != 0, the device MUST finish
> > > > > any
> > > > >
> > > > > pending operations like in flight requests. It must also preserve
> > > > > all
> > > > >
> > > > > the necessary state (the virtqueue vring base plus the possible
> > > > > device
> > > > >
> > > > > specific states) that is required for restoring in the future. The
> > > > >
> > > > > device must not change its configuration after that point.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > After the return of ioctl with stop == 0, the device can continue
> > > > >
> > > > > processing buffers as long as typical conditions are met (vq is
> > > > > enabled,
> > > > >
> > > > > DRIVER_OK status bit is enabled, etc).
> > > >
> > > > Just to be clear, we are adding vdpa level new ioctl() that doesn’t map to
> > any mechanism in the virtio spec.
> > > >
> > > > Why can't we use this ioctl() to indicate driver to start/stop the device
> > instead of driving it through the driver_ok?
> > > > This is in the context of other discussion we had in the LM series.
> > >
> > > If there's something in the spec that does this then let's use that.
> >
> > Actually, we try to propose a independent feature here:
> >
> > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/202111/msg00020.html
> >
> This will stop the device for all the operations.

Well, the ability to query the virtqueue state was proposed as another
feature (Eugenio, please correct me). This should be sufficient for
making virtio-net to be live migrated.

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/202103/msg00008.html

> Once the device is stopped, its state cannot be queried further as device won't respond.
> It has limited use case.
> What we need is to stop non admin queue related portion of the device.

See above.

Thanks

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> > Does it make sense to you?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > > Unfortunately the LM series seems to be stuck on moving bits around
> > > with the admin virtqueue ...
> > >
> > > --
> > > MST
> > >
>