[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] vdpa/mlx5: support direct HW notifications

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 3/24/20 3:24 PM, Asaf Penso wrote:
> From: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> 
> Add support for the next 2 callbacks:
> get_vfio_device_fd and get_notify_area.
> 
> This will allow direct HW doorbell ringing from guest and will save CPU
> usage in host.
> 
> By this patch, the QEMU will map the physical address of the virtio
> device in guest directly to the physical address of the HW device
> doorbell.
> 
> The guest doorbell write is 2 bytes transaction while some Mellanox nics
> support only 4 bytes transactions.
> 
> Remove ConnectX-5 and BF1 devices support which don't support 2B
> doorbell writes for HW triggering.

Couldn't we have different rte_vdpa_dev_ops depending on whether
doorbell write support?

> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
> index 5542c29..4eb6abf 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
> @@ -133,6 +133,29 @@
>  }
>  
>  static int
> +mlx5_vdpa_direct_db_prepare(struct mlx5_vdpa_priv *priv)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (priv->direct_notifier) {
> +		ret = rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl(priv->vid, false);
> +		if (ret != 0) {
> +			DRV_LOG(INFO, "Direct HW notifier FD cannot be "
> +				"destroyed for device %d: %d.", priv->vid, ret);
> +			return -1;
> +		}
> +		priv->direct_notifier = 0;
> +	}
> +	ret = rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl(priv->vid, true);
> +	if (ret != 0)
> +		DRV_LOG(INFO, "Direct HW notifier FD cannot be configured for"
> +			" device %d: %d.", priv->vid, ret);
> +	else
> +		priv->direct_notifier = 1;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int
>  mlx5_vdpa_features_set(int vid)
>  {
>  	int did = rte_vhost_get_vdpa_device_id(vid);
> @@ -209,8 +232,9 @@
>  		return -1;
>  	}
>  	priv->vid = vid;
> -	if (mlx5_vdpa_mem_register(priv) || mlx5_vdpa_virtqs_prepare(priv) ||
> -	    mlx5_vdpa_steer_setup(priv) || mlx5_vdpa_cqe_event_setup(priv)) {
> +	if (mlx5_vdpa_mem_register(priv) || mlx5_vdpa_direct_db_prepare(priv) ||
> +	    mlx5_vdpa_virtqs_prepare(priv) || mlx5_vdpa_steer_setup(priv) ||
> +	    mlx5_vdpa_cqe_event_setup(priv)) {
>  		mlx5_vdpa_dev_close(vid);
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> @@ -218,6 +242,40 @@
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int
> +mlx5_vdpa_get_device_fd(int vid)
> +{
> +	int did = rte_vhost_get_vdpa_device_id(vid);
> +	struct mlx5_vdpa_priv *priv = mlx5_vdpa_find_priv_resource_by_did(did);
> +
> +	if (priv == NULL) {
> +		DRV_LOG(ERR, "Invalid device id: %d.", did);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +	return priv->ctx->cmd_fd;
> +}
> +
> +static int
> +mlx5_vdpa_get_notify_area(int vid, int qid, uint64_t *offset, uint64_t *size)
> +{
> +	int did = rte_vhost_get_vdpa_device_id(vid);
> +	struct mlx5_vdpa_priv *priv = mlx5_vdpa_find_priv_resource_by_did(did);
> +
> +	RTE_SET_USED(qid);
> +	if (priv == NULL) {
> +		DRV_LOG(ERR, "Invalid device id: %d.", did);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +	if (!priv->var) {
> +		DRV_LOG(ERR, "VAR was not created for device %d, is the device"
> +			" configured?.", did);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +	*offset = priv->var->mmap_off;
> +	*size = priv->var->length;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static struct rte_vdpa_dev_ops mlx5_vdpa_ops = {
>  	.get_queue_num = mlx5_vdpa_get_queue_num,
>  	.get_features = mlx5_vdpa_get_vdpa_features,
> @@ -228,8 +286,8 @@
>  	.set_features = mlx5_vdpa_features_set,
>  	.migration_done = NULL,
>  	.get_vfio_group_fd = NULL,
> -	.get_vfio_device_fd = NULL,
> -	.get_notify_area = NULL,
> +	.get_vfio_device_fd = mlx5_vdpa_get_device_fd,
> +	.get_notify_area = mlx5_vdpa_get_notify_area,
>  };
>  
>  static struct ibv_device *
> @@ -520,14 +578,6 @@
>  static const struct rte_pci_id mlx5_vdpa_pci_id_map[] = {
>  	{
>  		RTE_PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MELLANOX,
> -			       PCI_DEVICE_ID_MELLANOX_CONNECTX5BF)
> -	},
> -	{
> -		RTE_PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MELLANOX,
> -			       PCI_DEVICE_ID_MELLANOX_CONNECTX5BFVF)
> -	},
> -	{
> -		RTE_PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MELLANOX,
>  				PCI_DEVICE_ID_MELLANOX_CONNECTX6)
>  	},
>  	{
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h
> index 3324c9d..75af410 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.h
> @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ struct mlx5_vdpa_steer {
>  struct mlx5_vdpa_priv {
>  	TAILQ_ENTRY(mlx5_vdpa_priv) next;
>  	uint8_t configured;
> +	uint8_t direct_notifier; /* Whether direct notifier is on or off. */
>  	int id; /* vDPA device id. */
>  	int vid; /* vhost device id. */
>  	struct ibv_context *ctx; /* Device context. */
>