[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] net/virtio-user: support to report net status

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Wed Mar 29 10:36:59 CEST 2017


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 04:33:20PM +0800, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/29/2017 4:00 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 03:48:04PM +0800, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> >>
> >>On 3/29/2017 3:14 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >>>On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 03:07:28PM +0800, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> >>>>On 3/29/2017 2:33 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >>>>>On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 07:46:32AM +0000, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> >>>>>>>>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
> >>>>>>>b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
> >>>>>>>>index 9777d6b..cc6f557 100644
> >>>>>>>>--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
> >>>>>>>>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c
> >>>>>>>>@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ virtio_user_start_device(struct virtio_user_dev
> >>>>>>>*dev, uint8_t portid)
> >>>>>>>>  	features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC);
> >>>>>>>>  	/* Strip VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ, as devices do not really need to
> >>>>>>>know */
> >>>>>>>>  	features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ);
> >>>>>>>>+	features &= ~(1ull << VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS);
> >>>>>>>>  	ret = dev->ops->send_request(dev, VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES,
> >>>>>>>&features);
> >>>>>>>>  	if (ret < 0)
> >>>>>>>>  		goto error;
> >>>>>>>>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>>>>>>b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>>>>>>>index fa79419..fbdd0a8 100644
> >>>>>>>>--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>>>>>>>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c
> >>>>>>>>@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ virtio_user_get_features(struct virtio_hw *hw)
> >>>>>>>>  	struct virtio_user_dev *dev = virtio_user_get_dev(hw);
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>  	/* unmask feature bits defined in vhost user protocol */
> >>>>>>>>-	return dev->device_features &
> >>>>>>>VIRTIO_PMD_SUPPORTED_GUEST_FEATURES;
> >>>>>>>>+	return (dev->device_features | (1 << VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS))
> >>>>>>>>+		& VIRTIO_PMD_SUPPORTED_GUEST_FEATURES;
> >>>>>>>Why not handle the features at virtio_user_dev_init()?
> >>>>>>You mean add VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS when get_features from device? Yes, we could do that there. But we originally add device_features to only record features supported by device.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>Aren't you adding the F_STATUS features to this device?
> >>>>>
> >>>>For virtio driver, yes, we are adding F_STATUS feature so the it sees a
> >>>>device supporting LSC.
> >>>That means you are adding a device feature (F_STATUS) and reporting it to
> >>>the driver that this feature is always on, no matter whether the device
> >>>actually supports it or not? This looks wrong to me.
> >>Why?
> >Because you were doing hack to make virtio-user work, while there is no
> >such hack in the QEMU virtio-pci implementation.
> >
> >>IMO, device is not necessary to know this feature.
> >F_STATUS is a device feature. If such feature is not claimed to be
> >supported by the device, the driver should ignore it. But you are
> >unconditionally letting the driver handle it, even though  the
> >virito-user device does not claim to support it.
> >
> >Note that F_STATUS is set in the QEMU virtio-net PCI device.
> 
> In QEMU virtio-net PCI device, the device includes QEMU device emulation +
> vhost backend driver. This feature only shows at QEMU device emulation,
> instead of vhost backend driver. This is why we did not see this feature at
> any vhost backends.
> And the embedded virtio-user actually substitutes QEMU device emulation
> part, so this feature should end at this layer.
> 
> Let's look this in this way, if we let this feature go through to vhost
> user, it will be treated as an error in vhost_user_set_features().

Again, why can't we (virtio-user) follow QEMU?

	--yliu


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