[dpdk-dev] Query : Does Binding with vfio-pci is supported inside qemu-kvm guest/vm instance.?

[John Sucaet]

Thanks, Anatoly.

Maxime, could you enlighten me a bit? I basically would like to know 
whether I should be able to make my 32-bit dpdk application work with 
virtio-pci-net and vfio-pci (with a 64-bit kernel), or if I should do 
the effort to port to 64-bit (which I would like to avoid for now).

Thank you
John

On 04/02/2019 03:38 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 02-Apr-19 11:38 AM, John Sucaet wrote:
>> Hi Anatoly,
>>
>> As you said: There's no reason to use igb_uio, ever!
>
> That was partly tongue in cheek, but point taken :)
>
>> I would like to ask whether vfio-pci with or without vIOMMU 
>> should/could work for virtio-pci net devices in the case of a 32-bit 
>> dpdk application, on a 64-bit kernel (4.9) inside a guest VM 
>> (qemu-2.10.2-1.fc27)?
>>
>> I tried both a 64-bit and a 32-bit version of the same application, 
>> but only in the case of the 64-bit application, the port was found by 
>> eal. The 32-bit application gave errors like:
>>
>> EAL: pci_map_resource(): cannot mmap(16, 0xf4a01000, 0x4000, 0x0): 
>> Invalid argument (0xffffffff)
>> EAL: Failed to map pci BAR4
>> EAL:   0000:00:02.0 mapping BAR4 failed: Invalid argument
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (12)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (0)
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (4)
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (14)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (14)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (1a)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (1c)
>> EAL: Can't write to PCI bar (0) : offset (e)
>> EAL: Can't read from PCI bar (0) : offset (c)
>> virtio_init_queue(): virtqueue size is not powerof 2
>> EAL: Requested device 0000:00:02.0 cannot be used
>>
>> Maybe you have an idea what went wrong here?
>>
>> By preference, I would like to continue to use the 32-bit application 
>> which worked fine with the igb_uio driver.
>
> Unfortunately, i am not very familiar with virtio and wouldn't know 
> whether it's supposed to work under these conditions. Perhaps Maxime 
> would be of more help here (CC'd).
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 03/12/2019 11:57 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>>> On 12-Mar-19 10:20 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:54:39PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2019/3/12 下午5:42, Thanneeru Srinivasulu wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks Bruce..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:08 PM Bruce Richardson
>>>>>> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:57:55AM +0530, Thanneeru Srinivasulu 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Everyone.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I did attached pice  to Guest VM using vfio-pci with qemu 
>>>>>>>> command, and then
>>>>>>>> tried binding the pcie bdf with vfio-pci, observing binding 
>>>>>>>> failure with
>>>>>>>> vfio-pci.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Where as when tryied with igb_uio, everything works fine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does Binding with vfio-pci is supported inside VM/guest?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> vfio support requires the presence of an IOMMU, and you 
>>>>>>> generally don't
>>>>>>> have an IOMMU available in a VM.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /Bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, Qemu support vIOMMU + VFIO in guest[1], all you need is 
>>>>> to add a
>>>>> intel IOMMU and enabling caching mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.lfasiallc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Device-Assignment-with-Nested-Guests-and-DPDK_Peter-Xu.pdf 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info.
>>>>
>>>> /Bruce
>>>>
>>>
>>> One more thing: even without vIOMMU, VFIO has no-IOMMU mode which 
>>> can be enabled (for a recent-enough kernel). This will make VFIO 
>>> work even in cases where the guest doesn't have IOMMU emulation. 
>>> See? There's no reason to use igb_uio, ever! :D
>>>
>>
>>
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