Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] VirtIO RDMA

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 08:13:54PM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 01:45:27PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 01:16:06PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > > On 4/15/19 12:35 PM, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:02:15PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:01:54 +0300
> > > > > Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Data center backends use more and more RDMA or RoCE devices and more and
> > > > > > more software runs in virtualized environment.
> > > > > > There is a need for a standard to enable RDMA/RoCE on Virtual Machines.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Virtio is the optimal solution since is the de-facto para-virtualizaton
> > > > > > technology and also because the Virtio specification
> > > > > > allows Hardware Vendors to support Virtio protocol natively in order to
> > > > > > achieve bare metal performance.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This RFC is an effort to addresses challenges in defining the RDMA/RoCE
> > > > > > Virtio Specification and a look forward on possible implementation
> > > > > > techniques.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Open issues/Todo list:
> > > > > > List is huge, this is only start point of the project.
> > > > > > Anyway, here is one example of item in the list:
> > > > > > - Multi VirtQ: Every QP has two rings and every CQ has one. This means that
> > > > > >    in order to support for example 32K QPs we will need 64K VirtQ. Not sure
> > > > > >    that this is reasonable so one option is to have one for all and
> > > > > >    multiplex the traffic on it. This is not good approach as by design it
> > > > > >    introducing an optional starvation. Another approach would be multi
> > > > > >    queues and round-robin (for example) between them.
> > > > > > 
> > > Typically there will be a one-to-one mapping between QPs and CPUs (on the
> > > guest). 
> > 
> > Er we are really overloading words here.. The typical expectation is
> > that a 'RDMA QP' will have thousands and thousands of instances on a
> > system.
> > 
> > Most likely I think mapping 1:1 a virtio queue to a 'RDMA QP, CQ, SRQ,
> > etc' is a bad idea...
> 
> We have three options, no virtqueue for QP, 1 to 1 or multiplexing. What
> would be your vote on that?
> I think you are for option #1, right? but in this case there is actually no
> use of having a virtio-driver, isn't it?

The virtio driver is supposed to be a standard, like a hardware
standard, for doing the operation.

It doesn't mean that every single element under the driver needs to
use the virtio format QP.

Jason