[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/26] Single virtio implementation

[Thomas Monjalon]

> On 2/9/2015 9:14 AM, Ouyang, Changchun wrote:
> > This is the patch set for single virtio implementation.
> >  
> > Why we need single virtio?
> > ============================
> > As we know currently there are at least 3 virtio PMD driver implementations:
> > A) lib/librte_pmd_virtio(refer as virtio A);
> > B) virtio_net_pmd by 6wind(refer as virtio B);
> > C) virtio by Brocade/vyatta(refer as virtio C);
> >  
> > Integrating 3 implementations into one could reduce the maintaining cost and time,
> > in other hand, user don't need practice their application on 3 variant one by one to see
> > which one is the best for them;
> >  
> > What's the status?
> > ====================
> > Currently virtio A has covered most features of virtio B except for using port io to get pci resource,
> > so there is a patch(17/22) to resolve it. But on the other hand there are a few differences between
> > virtio A and virtio C, it needs integrate features/codes of virtio C into virtio A.
> > This patch set bases on two original RFC patch sets from Stephen Hemminger[stephen at networkplumber.org]
> > Refer to [http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-August/004845.html ] for the original one.
> > This patch set also resolves some conflict with latest codes, removed duplicated codes, fix some
> > issues in original codes.
> >  
> > What this patch set contains:
> > ===============================
> >   1) virtio: Rearrange resource initialization, it extracts a function to setup PCI resources;
> >   2) virtio: Use weaker barriers, as DPDK driver only has to deal with the case of running on PCI
> >      and with SMP, In this case, the code can use the weaker barriers instead of using hard (fence)
> >      barriers. This may help performance a bit;
> >   3) virtio: Allow starting with link down, other driver has similar behavior;
> >   4) virtio: Add support for Link State interrupt;
> >   5) ether: Add soft vlan encap/decap functions, it helps if HW don't support vlan strip;
> >   6) virtio: Use software vlan stripping;
> >   7) virtio: Remove unnecessary adapter structure;
> >   8) virtio: Remove redundant vq_alignment, as vq alignment is always 4K, so use constant when needed;
> >   9) virtio: Fix how states are handled during initialization, this is to match Linux kernel;
> >   10) virtio: Make vtpci_get_status a local function as it is used in one file;
> >   11) virtio: Check for packet headroom at compile time;
> >   12) virtio: Move allocation before initialization to avoid being stuck in middle of virtio init;
> >   13) virtio: Add support for vlan filtering;
> >   14) virtio: Add support for multiple mac addresses;
> >   15) virtio: Add ability to set MAC address;
> >   16) virtio: Free mbuf's with threshold, this makes its behavior more like ixgbe;
> >   17) virtio: Use port IO to get PCI resource for security reasons and match virtio-net-pmd;
> >   18) virtio: Fix descriptor index issue;
> >   19) ether: Fix vlan strip/insert issue;
> >   20) example/vhost: Avoid inserting vlan twice and guest and host;
> >   21) example/vhost: Add vlan-strip cmd line option to turn on/off vlan strip on host;
> >   22) virtio: Use soft vlan strip in mergeable Rx path, this makes it has consistent logic
> >       with the normal Rx path.
> >  
> > Changes in v2:
> >   23) virtio: Fix zero copy break issue, the vring should be ready before virtio PMD set
> >       the status of DRIVER_OK;
> >   24) virtio: Remove unnecessary hotspots in data path.
> >  
> > Changes in v3:
> >   25) virtio: Fix wmb issue;
> >   26) Fix one minor issue in patch 20, also fix its idention.
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> >   27) Fix updating vring descriptor index issue and memory barrier issue;
> >   28) Reslove comments for patch 17.
> >
> > Changchun Ouyang (10):
> >   virtio: Use port IO to get PCI resource.
> >   virtio: Fix descriptor index issue
> >   ether: Fix vlan strip/insert issue
> >   example/vhost: Avoid inserting vlan twice
> >   example/vhost: Add vlan-strip cmd line option
> >   virtio: Use soft vlan strip in mergeable Rx path
> >   virtio: Fix zero copy break issue
> >   virtio: Remove hotspots
> >   virtio: Fix wmb issue
> >   virtio: Fix updating vring descriptor index issue
> >
> > Stephen Hemminger (16):
> >   virtio: Rearrange resource initialization
> >   virtio: Use weaker barriers
> >   virtio: Allow starting with link down
> >   virtio: Add support for Link State interrupt
> >   ether: Add soft vlan encap/decap functions
> >   virtio: Use software vlan stripping
> >   virtio: Remove unnecessary adapter structure
> >   virtio: Remove redundant vq_alignment
> >   virtio: Fix how states are handled during initialization
> >   virtio: Make vtpci_get_status local
> >   virtio: Check for packet headroom at compile time
> >   virtio: Move allocation before initialization
> >   virtio: Add support for vlan filtering
> >   virtio: Add suport for multiple mac addresses
> >   virtio: Add ability to set MAC address
> >   virtio: Free mbuf's with threshold
> 
> Acked-by Huawei Xie <huawei.xie at intel.com>

Applied, thanks.
The patches which were fixing previous ones have been merged.

The virtio-net-pmd extension (out of tree) should be deprecated now.