[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 0/9] vhost: support inflight share memory protocol feature

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Wed Oct 16 13:12:04 CEST 2019



On 10/9/19 10:48 PM, Jin Yu wrote:
> v2:
> - specify the APIs are split-ring only
> 
> v3:
> - fix APIs issues and judge split or packed
> 
> v4:
> - add rte_vhost_ prefix and fix issues
> 
> v5:
> - add the packed ring support and add the vhost_blk example
> 
> v6:
> - revise get_vring_base func depend on Tiwei's suggestion
> 
> v7:
> - divide patch into small patches
> 
> v8:
> - updated base on Maxime's comments
> 
> v9:
> - updated base on Tiwei's comments
> 
> v10:
> - fix code style and update some misleading log
> 
> v11:
> - add the version log to cover letter
> 
> This patches introduces two new messages VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD and VHOST_USER_SET_INFLIGHT_FD to support transferring a shared buffer between qemu and backend.
> Now It can both support split and packed ring. The example code show how these API work. The test has passed.
> 
> How to test the example:
> 1, Qemu need two patches.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10766813/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10861411/(QEMU merged) it also needs some manual modifications:
> we should confirm that before we send get inflight we have already sent the set features but it seems Qemu didn't do like this. So we manually revise this, we can add below code in vhost_dev_get_inflight
>     int r;
> 
>     r = vhost_dev_set_features(dev, dev->log_enabled);
>     if (r < 0) {
>         return -errno;
>     }
> before get_inflight_fd.
> 2, Guest OS version >= 5.0
> 3, run the example
> 4, run the qemu with vhost-user-blk-pci.
>  eg:
>         -chardev socket,id=spdk_vhost_blk0,reconnect=1,path=xxxx\
>         -device vhost-user-blk-pci,ring_packed=on,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk0,num-queues=1\
> 5, run fio in the guest
> 6, kill the example and run again.
> 7, the fio in the guest should continue run without errors.
> 
> 
> Jin Yu (9):
>   vhost: add the inflight description
>   vhost: add packed ring
>   vhost: add the inflight structure
>   vhost: add two new messages to support a shared buffer
>   vhost: checkout the resubmit inflight information
>   vhost: add the APIs to operate inflight ring
>   vhost: add APIs for user getting inflight ring
>   vhost: add vring functions packed ring support
>   vhost: add vhost-user-blk example which support inflight
> 
>  examples/vhost_blk/Makefile            |   68 ++
>  examples/vhost_blk/blk.c               |  125 +++
>  examples/vhost_blk/blk_spec.h          |   95 +++
>  examples/vhost_blk/meson.build         |   21 +
>  examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk.c         | 1092 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk.h         |  128 +++
>  examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk_compat.c  |  195 +++++
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h           |  237 ++++-
>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |    8 +
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.c               |  407 ++++++++-
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h               |   16 +
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c          |  456 +++++++++-
>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.h          |   12 +-
>  13 files changed, 2847 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/blk.c
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/blk_spec.h
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/meson.build
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk.c
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk.h
>  create mode 100644 examples/vhost_blk/vhost_blk_compat.c
> 

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master.

Thanks,
Maxime


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