[dpdk-dev] [RFC][PATCH V2 1/3] examples/vhost: Add vswitch (generic switch) framework

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 04:24:29PM +0530, Pankaj Chauhan wrote:
> Introduce support for a generic framework for handling of switching between
> physical and vhost devices. The vswitch framework introduces the following
> concept:
> 
> 1. vswitch_dev: Vswitch device is a logical switch which can have physical and
> virtio devices. The devices are operated/used using standard rte_eth API for
> physical devices and lib_vhost API for vhost devices, PMD API is not used
> for vhost devices.
> 
> 2. vswitch_port: Any physical or virtio device that is added to vswitch. The
> port can have its own tx/rx functions for doing data transfer, which are exposed
> to the framework using generic function pointers (vs_port->do_tx/do_rx). This way
> the generic code can do tx/rx without understanding the type of device (Physical or
> virtio). Similarly each port has its own functions to select tx/rx queues. The framework
> provides default tx/rx queue selection functions to the port when port is added
> (for both physical and vhost devices). But the framework allows the switch implementation
> to override the queue selection functions (vs_port->get_txq/rxq) if required.
> 
> 3. vswitch_ops: The ops is set of function pointers which are used to do operations
> like learning, unlearning, add/delete port, lookup_and_forward. The user of vswitch
> framework (vhost/main.[c,h])uses these function pointers to perform above mentioned
> operations, thus it remains agnostic of the underlying implementation.
> 
> Different switching logics can implement their vswitch_device and vswitch_ops, and
> register with the framework. This framework makes vhost-switch application scalable
> in terms of:
> 
> 1. Different switching logics (one of them is vmdq, vhost/vmdq.[c,h]
> 2. Number of ports.
> 3. Policies of selecting ports for rx and tx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Chauhan <pankaj.chauhan at nxp.com>

Hi,

FYI, my testrobot caught some errors when this patch is applied.
(And sorry for the late review; hopefully I can make it next week).

        --yliu

---
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'virtio_xmit':
examples/vhost/main.c:815:41: error: 'struct vhost_dev' has no member named 'vs_port'
  struct vswitch_port *vs_port = dst_vdev->vs_port;
                                         ^
examples/vhost/main.c:822:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct vswitch_port'
  txq = vs_port->get_txq(vs_port, rte_lcore_id());
               ^
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'do_drain_mbuf_table':
examples/vhost/main.c:952:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_sched_tx_port' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  tx_port = vs_sched_tx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:952:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_sched_tx_port' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  tx_port = vs_sched_tx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:952:29: error: 'vswitch_dev_g' undeclared (first use in this function)
  tx_port = vs_sched_tx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
                             ^
examples/vhost/main.c:952:29: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
examples/vhost/main.c:952:44: error: 'VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  tx_port = vs_sched_tx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
                                            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:958:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct vswitch_port'
   count = tx_port->do_tx(tx_port, tx_q->txq_id, NULL, tx_q->m_table,
                  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:955:6: error: label 'out' used but not defined
      goto out;
      ^
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'drain_eth_rx':
examples/vhost/main.c:1096:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_sched_rx_port' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  rx_port = vs_sched_rx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1096:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_sched_rx_port' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  rx_port = vs_sched_rx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1096:29: error: 'vswitch_dev_g' undeclared (first use in this function)
  rx_port = vs_sched_rx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
                             ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1096:44: error: 'VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  rx_port = vs_sched_rx_port(vswitch_dev_g, VSWITCH_PTYPE_PHYS,
                                            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1105:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct vswitch_port'
  rxq = rx_port->get_rxq(rx_port, vdev, core_id);
               ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1099:6: error: label 'out' used but not defined
      goto out;
      ^
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'drain_virtio_tx':
examples/vhost/main.c:1145:37: error: 'struct vhost_dev' has no member named 'vs_port'
  struct vswitch_port *vs_port = vdev->vs_port;
                                     ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1154:15: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type 'struct vswitch_port'
  rxq = vs_port->get_rxq(vs_port, NULL, core_id);
               ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1162:23: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_learn_port' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   if (vdev->remove || vs_learn_port(vs_port, pkts, count))
                       ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1162:3: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_learn_port' [-Werror=nested-externs]
   if (vdev->remove || vs_learn_port(vs_port, pkts, count))
   ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1166:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_lookup_n_fwd' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  vs_lookup_n_fwd(vs_port, pkts, count, VIRTIO_RXQ);
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1166:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_lookup_n_fwd' [-Werror=nested-externs]
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'new_device':
examples/vhost/main.c:1310:19: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_get_max_vdevs' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  device_num_min = vs_get_max_vdevs(vswitch_dev_g);
                   ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1310:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_get_max_vdevs' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  device_num_min = vs_get_max_vdevs(vswitch_dev_g);
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1310:36: error: 'vswitch_dev_g' undeclared (first use in this function)
  device_num_min = vs_get_max_vdevs(vswitch_dev_g);
                                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1313:2: error: 'vs_port' undeclared (first use in this function)
  vs_port = vs_add_port(vswitch_dev_g, vid, VSWITCH_PTYPE_VIRTIO, vdev);
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1313:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_add_port' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  vs_port = vs_add_port(vswitch_dev_g, vid, VSWITCH_PTYPE_VIRTIO, vdev);
            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1313:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_add_port' [-Werror=nested-externs]
  vs_port = vs_add_port(vswitch_dev_g, vid, VSWITCH_PTYPE_VIRTIO, vdev);
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1313:44: error: 'VSWITCH_PTYPE_VIRTIO' undeclared (first use in this function)
  vs_port = vs_add_port(vswitch_dev_g, vid, VSWITCH_PTYPE_VIRTIO, vdev);
                                            ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1319:6: error: 'struct vhost_dev' has no member named 'vs_port'
  vdev->vs_port = vs_port;
      ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1347:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'vs_port_start' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  vs_port_start(vs_port);
  ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1347:2: error: nested extern declaration of 'vs_port_start' [-Werror=nested-externs]
examples/vhost/main.c: In function 'get_vswitch_conf_flags':
examples/vhost/main.c:1479:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_VM2VM_HARDWARE' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_VM2VM_HARDWARE;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1482:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_VM2VM_SOFTWARE' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_VM2VM_SOFTWARE;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1485:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_PROMISCOUS_EN' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_PROMISCOUS_EN;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1487:6: error: 'jumbo_frame_en' undeclared (first use in this function)
  if (jumbo_frame_en)
      ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1488:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_JUMBO_EN' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_JUMBO_EN;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1491:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_STATS_EN' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_STATS_EN;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1494:20: error: 'VS_CNF_FLG_VLAN_STRIP_EN' undeclared (first use in this function)
   vs_conf_flags |= VS_CNF_FLG_VLAN_STRIP_EN;
                    ^
examples/vhost/main.c: At top level:
examples/vhost/main.c:726:1: error: 'link_vmdq' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
 link_vmdq(struct vhost_dev *vdev, struct rte_mbuf *m)
 ^
examples/vhost/main.c:1474:17: error: 'get_vswitch_conf_flags' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
 static uint64_t get_vswitch_conf_flags(void)
                 ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
error: build examples/vhost failed
error: build failed