[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 09/11] net/virtio: disable ctrl virtqueue for packed rings

Tiwei Bie tiwei.bie at intel.com
Fri Sep 14 07:32:36 CEST 2018


On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:19:45PM +0100, Jens Freimann wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jens Freiman <jfreimann at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> index a2bb726ba..b02c65598 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> @@ -1161,6 +1161,15 @@ virtio_negotiate_features(struct virtio_hw *hw, uint64_t req_features)
>  			req_features &= ~(1ULL << VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU);
>  	}
>  
> +#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_PQ
> +	if (req_features & (1ULL << VIRTIO_F_RING_PACKED)) {
> +		req_features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR);
> +		req_features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ);
> +		req_features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX);
> +		req_features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN);
> +	}
> +#endif

I think we need to support ctrl vq.

And in performance test, we need to use more cores on vhost
side to make sure that we can get the max performance of the
virtio PMD. Otherwise, it's likely that the performance gain
we get is the gain in vhost.

> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Negotiate features: Subset of device feature bits are written back
>  	 * guest feature bits.
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 


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