Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/17] virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 09:11:50AM +0300, Arseny Krasnov wrote:
>
>On 11.02.2021 17:57, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>> Hi Arseny,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 09:32:59AM +0300, Arseny Krasnov wrote:
>>> On 07.02.2021 19:20, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 06:12:56PM +0300, Arseny Krasnov wrote:
>>>>> 	This patchset impelements support of SOCK_SEQPACKET for virtio
>>>>> transport.
>>>>> 	As SOCK_SEQPACKET guarantees to save record boundaries, so to
>>>>> do it, two new packet operations were added: first for start of record
>>>>>  and second to mark end of record(SEQ_BEGIN and SEQ_END later). Also,
>>>>> both operations carries metadata - to maintain boundaries and payload
>>>>> integrity. Metadata is introduced by adding special header with two
>>>>> fields - message count and message length:
>>>>>
>>>>> 	struct virtio_vsock_seq_hdr {
>>>>> 		__le32  msg_cnt;
>>>>> 		__le32  msg_len;
>>>>> 	} __attribute__((packed));
>>>>>
>>>>> 	This header is transmitted as payload of SEQ_BEGIN and SEQ_END
>>>>> packets(buffer of second virtio descriptor in chain) in the same way as
>>>>> data transmitted in RW packets. Payload was chosen as buffer for this
>>>>> header to avoid touching first virtio buffer which carries header of
>>>>> packet, because someone could check that size of this buffer is equal
>>>>> to size of packet header. To send record, packet with start marker is
>>>>> sent first(it's header contains length of record and counter), then
>>>>> counter is incremented and all data is sent as usual 'RW' packets and
>>>>> finally SEQ_END is sent(it also carries counter of message, which is
>>>>> counter of SEQ_BEGIN + 1), also after sedning SEQ_END counter is
>>>>> incremented again. On receiver's side, length of record is known from
>>>>> packet with start record marker. To check that no packets were dropped
>>>>> by transport, counters of two sequential SEQ_BEGIN and SEQ_END are
>>>>> checked(counter of SEQ_END must be bigger that counter of SEQ_BEGIN by
>>>>> 1) and length of data between two markers is compared to length in
>>>>> SEQ_BEGIN header.
>>>>> 	Now as  packets of one socket are not reordered neither on
>>>>> vsock nor on vhost transport layers, such markers allows to restore
>>>>> original record on receiver's side. If user's buffer is smaller that
>>>>> record length, when all out of size data is dropped.
>>>>> 	Maximum length of datagram is not limited as in stream socket,
>>>>> because same credit logic is used. Difference with stream socket is
>>>>> that user is not woken up until whole record is received or error
>>>>> occurred. Implementation also supports 'MSG_EOR' and 'MSG_TRUNC' flags.
>>>>> 	Tests also implemented.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Arseny Krasnov (17):
>>>>>   af_vsock: update functions for connectible socket
>>>>>   af_vsock: separate wait data loop
>>>>>   af_vsock: separate receive data loop
>>>>>   af_vsock: implement SEQPACKET receive loop
>>>>>   af_vsock: separate wait space loop
>>>>>   af_vsock: implement send logic for SEQPACKET
>>>>>   af_vsock: rest of SEQPACKET support
>>>>>   af_vsock: update comments for stream sockets
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: dequeue callback for SOCK_SEQPACKET
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: fetch length for SEQPACKET record
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: add SEQPACKET receive logic
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: rest of SOCK_SEQPACKET support
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: setup SEQPACKET ops for transport
>>>>>   vhost/vsock: setup SEQPACKET ops for transport
>>>>>   vsock_test: add SOCK_SEQPACKET tests
>>>>>   loopback/vsock: setup SEQPACKET ops for transport
>>>>>   virtio/vsock: simplify credit update function API
>>>>>
>>>>>  drivers/vhost/vsock.c                   |   8 +-
>>>>>  include/linux/virtio_vsock.h            |  15 +
>>>>>  include/net/af_vsock.h                  |   9 +
>>>>>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_vsock.h       |  16 +
>>>>>  net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                | 588 +++++++++++++++-------
>>>>>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c        |   5 +
>>>>>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 316 ++++++++++--
>>>>>  net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.c          |   5 +
>>>>>  tools/testing/vsock/util.c              |  32 +-
>>>>>  tools/testing/vsock/util.h              |   3 +
>>>>>  tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c        | 126 +++++
>>>>>  11 files changed, 895 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>>  TODO:
>>>>>  - What to do, when server doesn't support SOCK_SEQPACKET. In current
>>>>>    implementation RST is replied in the same way when listening port
>>>>>    is not found. I think that current RST is enough,because case when
>>>>>    server doesn't support SEQ_PACKET is same when listener missed(e.g.
>>>>>    no listener in both cases).
>> I think is fine.
>>
>>>>    - virtio spec patch
>>> Ok
>> Yes, please prepare a patch to discuss the VIRTIO spec changes.
>>
>> For example for 'virtio_vsock_seq_hdr', I left a comment about 'msg_cnt'
>> naming that should be better to discuss with virtio guys.
>
>Ok, i'll prepare it in v5. So I have to send it both LKML(as one of patches) and
>
>virtio mailing lists? (e.g. virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org)

I think you can send the VIRTIO spec patch separately from this series 
to virtio-comment, maybe CCing virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

But Michael could correct me :-)

>
>>
>> Anyway, I reviewed this series and I left some comments.
>> I think we are in a good shape :-)
>Great, thanks for review. I'll consider all review comments in next 
>version.

Great!

Stefano