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From: Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] vdpa: Add support for vq descriptor mappings
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:37:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cda93fbafff69a773b6d06b212899d05e8703e85.camel@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79d1b247-ecf9-b636-3581-341515cd68cf@oracle.com>

On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 05:22 -0700, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/25/2023 12:59 AM, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 16:01 +0300, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > > This patch series adds support for vq descriptor table mappings which
> > > are used to improve vdpa live migration downtime. The improvement comes
> > > from using smaller mappings which take less time to create and destroy
> > > in hw.
> > > 
> > Gentle ping.
> > 
> > Note that I will have to send a v2. The changes in mlx5_ifc.h will need to
> > be
> > merged first separately into the mlx5-next branch [0] and then pulled from
> > there
> > when the series is applied.
> This separation is unnecessary, as historically the virtio emulation 
> portion of the update to mlx5_ifc.h often had to go through the vhost 
> tree. See commits 1892a3d425bf and e13cd45d352d. Especially the 
> additions from this series (mainly desc group mkey) have nothing to do 
> with any networking or NIC driver feature.
> 
The reason for doing that is to avoid conflicts in Linus's tree on the
mlx5_ifc.h file.

Thanks,
Dragos

> -Siwei
> 
> > 
> > [0]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux.git/log/?h=mlx5-next
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dragos
> > 
> > > The first part adds the vdpa core changes from Si-Wei [0].
> > > 
> > > The second part adds support in mlx5_vdpa:
> > > - Refactor the mr code to be able to cleanly add descriptor mappings.
> > > - Add hardware descriptor mr support.
> > > - Properly update iotlb for cvq during ASID switch.
> > > 
> > > [0]
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/1694248959-13369-1-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@oracle.com
> > > 
> > > Dragos Tatulea (13):
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Create helper function for dma mappings
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Decouple cvq iotlb handling from hw mapping code
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Take cvq iotlb lock during refresh
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Collapse "dvq" mr add/delete functions
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Rename mr destroy functions
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Allow creation/deletion of any given mr struct
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Move mr mutex out of mr struct
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Improve mr update flow
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Introduce mr for vq descriptor
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Enable hw support for vq descriptor mapping
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Make iotlb helper functions more generic
> > >    vdpa/mlx5: Update cvq iotlb mapping on ASID change
> > >    Cover letter: vdpa/mlx5: Add support for vq descriptor mappings
> > > 
> > > Si-Wei Liu (3):
> > >    vdpa: introduce dedicated descriptor group for virtqueue
> > >    vhost-vdpa: introduce descriptor group backend feature
> > >    vhost-vdpa: uAPI to get dedicated descriptor group id
> > > 
> > >   drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h |  31 +++--
> > >   drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c        | 191 ++++++++++++++++-------------
> > >   drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c |   6 +-
> > >   drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c  | 100 ++++++++++-----
> > >   drivers/vhost/vdpa.c               |  27 ++++
> > >   include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h      |   8 +-
> > >   include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc_vdpa.h |   7 +-
> > >   include/linux/vdpa.h               |  11 ++
> > >   include/uapi/linux/vhost.h         |   8 ++
> > >   include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h   |   5 +
> > >   10 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)
> > > 
> 

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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-12 13:01 [PATCH 00/16] vdpa: Add support for vq descriptor mappings Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 01/16] vdpa: introduce dedicated descriptor group for virtqueue Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 02/16] vhost-vdpa: introduce descriptor group backend feature Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 03/16] vhost-vdpa: uAPI to get dedicated descriptor group id Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 04/16] vdpa/mlx5: Create helper function for dma mappings Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  3:11   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 05/16] vdpa/mlx5: Decouple cvq iotlb handling from hw mapping code Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  3:28   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 06/16] vdpa/mlx5: Take cvq iotlb lock during refresh Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  3:33   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 07/16] vdpa/mlx5: Collapse "dvq" mr add/delete functions Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  3:33   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 08/16] vdpa/mlx5: Rename mr destroy functions Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  3:34   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 09/16] vdpa/mlx5: Allow creation/deletion of any given mr struct Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26  4:44   ` Jason Wang
2023-09-26  7:21     ` Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-10-08  4:25       ` Jason Wang
2023-10-08 12:04         ` Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-10-09  6:39           ` Jason Wang
2023-10-09  7:06             ` Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 10/16] vdpa/mlx5: Move mr mutex out of " Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 11/16] vdpa/mlx5: Improve mr update flow Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 12/16] vdpa/mlx5: Introduce mr for vq descriptor Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 13/16] vdpa/mlx5: Enable hw support for vq descriptor mapping Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 14/16] vdpa/mlx5: Make iotlb helper functions more generic Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-12 13:01 ` [PATCH 15/16] vdpa/mlx5: Update cvq iotlb mapping on ASID change Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
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2023-09-15  6:34     ` [PATCH 00/16] vdpa: Add support for vq descriptor mappings Si-Wei Liu
2023-09-25  7:59 ` Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization
2023-09-26 12:22   ` Si-Wei Liu
2023-09-26 12:37     ` Dragos Tatulea via Virtualization [this message]

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