Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/11] Device Memory TCP

[David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>]

On 17/08/2023 15:18, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:04 AM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/14/23 02:12, David Ahern wrote:
>>> On 8/9/23 7:57 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:
>>>> Changes in RFC v2:
>>>> ------------------
>> ...
>>>> ** Test Setup
>>>>
>>>> Kernel: net-next with this RFC and memory provider API cherry-picked
>>>> locally.
>>>>
>>>> Hardware: Google Cloud A3 VMs.
>>>>
>>>> NIC: GVE with header split & RSS & flow steering support.
>>>
>>> This set seems to depend on Jakub's memory provider patches and a netdev
>>> driver change which is not included. For the testing mentioned here, you
>>> must have a tree + branch with all of the patches. Is it publicly available?
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to see how well (easy) this integrates with
>>> io_uring. Besides avoiding all of the syscalls for receiving the iov and
>>> releasing the buffers back to the pool, io_uring also brings in the
>>> ability to seed a page_pool with registered buffers which provides a
>>> means to get simpler Rx ZC for host memory.
>>
>> The patchset sounds pretty interesting. I've been working with David Wei
>> (CC'ing) on io_uring zc rx (prototype polishing stage) all that is old
>> similar approaches based on allocating an rx queue. It targets host
>> memory and device memory as an extra feature, uapi is different, lifetimes
>> are managed/bound to io_uring. Completions/buffers are returned to user via
>> a separate queue instead of cmsg, and pushed back granularly to the kernel
>> via another queue. I'll leave it to David to elaborate
>>
>> It sounds like we have space for collaboration here, if not merging then
>> reusing internals as much as we can, but we'd need to look into the
>> details deeper.
>>
> 
> I'm happy to look at your implementation and collaborate on something
> that works for both use cases. Feel free to share unpolished prototype
> so I can start having a general idea if possible.

Hi I'm David and I am working with Pavel on this. We will have something to
share with you on the mailing list before the end of the week.

I'm also preparing a submission for NetDev conf. I wonder if you and others at
Google plan to present there as well? If so, then we may want to coordinate our
submissions and talks (if accepted).

Please let me know this week, thanks!

> 
>>> Overall I like the intent and possibilities for extensions, but a lot of
>>> details are missing - perhaps some are answered by seeing an end-to-end
>>> implementation.
>>
>> --
>> Pavel Begunkov
> 
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