[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/14] net/mlx5: add support for multiport IB devices

[Slava Ovsiienko]

Hi, Shahaf,

My special thanks for immediate review. PSB.

With best regards,
Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shahaf Shuler
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 14:14
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 00/14] net/mlx5: add support for multiport IB devices
> 
> Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:11 AM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko:
> > Subject: [PATCH 00/14] net/mlx5: add support for multiport IB devices
> >
> > The Mellanox NICs support SR-IOV and have E-Switch feature.
> > When SR-IOV is set up in switchdev mode and E-Switch is enabled we
> > have so called VF representors in the system. All representors
> > belonging to the same E-Switch are created on the basis of the single
> > PCI function and with current implementation each representor has its
> > own dedicated Infiniband device and operates within its own Infiniband
> > context. It is proposed to provide representors as ports of the single
> > Infiniband device and operate on the shared Infiniband context.
> >
> > mlx5_pci_probe() routine is planned to be extended to probe the ports
> > of found Infiniband devices. All active ports, belonging to the same
> > Infiniband device will use the signle shared Infiniband context of that
> device:
> >   - QP are created within shared context, with assigning to
> >     specified port
> >   - Verb flows are also created with specifying port index
> >   - Protection Domain is shared by all representors
> >   - Global Memory Regions Cache is shared by all representors,
> >     local ones are not (not in this patchset)
> >   - Shared Asynchronous Event Handler distributes events
> >     among the device ports (not in this patchset)
> >   - UAR mapping to user space is also shared (not in patchset)
> >
> > Each representor has its own attach network interface device,
> > interface name and index can be retrieved via IB device and port
> > index, so the link control is performed via Netlink in the same way as
> > in existing implementation.
> 
> Nice Work Slava,
> Please see my comments.
> 
> Also - where is the support for sharing of the memory regions?

It is coming soon, as separate patch/patchset.
Ditto regarding UAR sharing.

> 
> >
> > This patchset also superseedes http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/50486/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>
> >
> > Viacheslav Ovsiienko (14):
> >   net/mlx5: add representor recognition on kernels 5.x
> >   net/mlx5: introduce multiport IB device shared structure
> >   net/mlx5: modify get ifindex routine for multiport IB
> >   net/mlx5: add getting IB ports number for multiport IB
> >   net/mlx5: add multiport IB device support to probing
> >   net/mlx5: add IB shared context alloc/free functions
> >   net/mlx5: switch to the names in the shared IB context
> >   net/mlx5: switch to the shared Protection Domain
> >   net/mlx5: switch to the shared context IB attributes
> >   net/mlx5: switch to the shared IB device context
> >   net/mlx5: provide IB port for the object being created
> >   net/mlx5: update install/uninstall int handler routines
> >   net/mlx5: update event handler for multiport IB devices
> >   net/mlx5: add source vport match to the ingress rules
> >
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/Makefile          |  10 +
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/meson.build       |   4 +
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c            | 549 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > ----
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h            |  38 ++-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c     | 241 ++++++++++------
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c       |   2 +
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c    |  47 +++-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c |   7 +-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mr.c         |   4 +-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl.c         | 101 ++++++-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c        |  41 +--
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_socket.c     |   4 +-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_stats.c      |  22 +-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_trigger.c    |   2 +-
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_txq.c        |  24 +-
> >  15 files changed, 795 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1