[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] Improve mlx5 PMD driver framework for multiple classes

Parav Pandit parav at mellanox.com
Thu Jul 9 09:34:43 CEST 2020


This series introduces mlx5 bus to support multiple class of devices
for a single PCI device.

Motivation and example
----------------------
mlx5 PCI device supports multiple class of devices such as net, vdpa
and regex devices.

Currently only one pmd (either net or vdpa) can bind to this device.
This design limits use of PCI device only for single device class.

To support multiple classes simultaneously for a mlx5 PCI device,
a new mlx5 PCI bus is created. This bus allows binding multiple
class drivers (such as net, vdpa, regex(future)) to bind to the
mlx5 PCI bus driver.

Change description
------------------
Patch-1 Introduces RTE_BIT() macro
Patch-2 Introduces new RTE constructor priority for common
initialization
Patch-3 Fixes compilation error
Patch-4 Define mlx5 class as bit fields
Patch-5 Uses new RTE common priority
Patch-6 Adds mlx5 PCI bus
Patch-7 Implements a mlx5 PCI bus driver
Patch-8 Migrates mlx5 net and vdpa driver to use mlx5 PCI bus
API instead of rte PCI bus API
Patch-9 Removed class check code as its already part of the bus now
Patch-10 Add maintainers for the new bus

Design overview
---------------

 -----------    ------------    -------------
 |   mlx5  |    |   mlx5   |    |   mlx5    |
 | net pmd |    | vdpa pmd |    | regex pmd |
 -----------    ------------    -------------
      \              |                /
       \             |               /
        \       -------------       /
         \______|   mlx5    |_____ /
                |   pci bus |
                -------------   
                     |
                 ----------- 
                 |   mlx5  | 
                 | pci dev | 
                 ----------- 

- mlx5 pci bus driver binds to mlx5 PCI devices defined by PCI
  ID table of all related mlx5 PCI devices.
- mlx5 class driver such as net, vdpa, regex PMD defines its
  specific PCI ID table and mlx5 bus driver probes matching
  class drivers.
- mlx5 pci bus driver is cental place that validates supported
  class combinations.
- In future as code evolves, more device setup/cleanup and
  resource creation code moves to mlx5 PCI bus driver.

Alternatives considered
-----------------------
1. Instead of creating mlx5 pci bus, a common driver is
implemented which exposes class registration API.
However, bus model fits better with existing DPDK design
similar to ifpga driver.
Class registration API need to create a new callbacks
and ID signature; instead it is better to utilize current
well defined methods.

2. Enhance pci core to allow multiple driver binding to
single rte PCI device.
This approach is not taken, because peer drivers using
one PCI device won't be aware of other's presence. This
requires cross-driver syncronization of who initializes
common resources (such as irq, eq and more).
This also requires refcounting common objects etc among
peer drivers.
Instead of layered approach delivers and allows putting
common resource sharing, setup code in common bus driver.
It also eliminates peer blind zone problem as bottom pci
bus layer provides necessary setup without any reference
counting.

3. In future mlx5 prefers to use RDMA MR cache of the mbuf
used between net and regex pmd so that same mbuf use across
multiple device can be possible.

Examples:
--------
A user who wish to use a specific class(es) provides list
of classes at command line such as,
./testpmd -w <PCI BDF>,class=net:vdpa
./testpmd -w <PCI BDF>,class=vdpa

In future,
./testpmd -w <PCI BDF>,class=net:regex

Changelog:
v4->v5:
 - Squash the maintainers update path with other patch which adds the
   bus
 - Addressed comments from Morten Brørup
 - Renamed newly added macro to RTE_BIT64
 - Added doxygen comment section for the macro
v3->v4:
 - Fixed dma_map error unwinding flow to follow same order for unmap
v2->v3:
 - Added RTE priority for common driver initialization
 - Addressed comments from Thomas and Asaf
 - Fixed compilation error in glue wrapper
 - Moved pci_driver structure instance as first in driver
 - Removed white spaces at the end of line in diagram
 - Address commnts from Matan
 - Removed CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PCI_BUS from config files
 - Renamed mlx5_valid_class_combo to mlx5_class_combinations
 - Added cross check for class drivers to support only 3 flags for now
 - Added full stop at the end of comment block
 - Using full names in function names
 - Added new line before function name in multiple functions
 - Added example string to parse for multiple classes
 - Dropped mlx5 prefix from static function
 - Removed empty lines
 - Fixed issue to remove multiple classes for a driver
 - Using define for drv_flags at multiple places
 - Deriving drv_flags based on the class drivers
 - Fixed alignment for id_table
 - Perform dma map on best effort basis for all supported drivers
 - Dynamically build pci id table
 - Using PCI to mlx5 device helper routines
v1->v2:
 - Addressed most comments from Thomas and Gaetan.
 - Symbols starting with prefix rte_bus_pci_mlx5 may be
   confusing as it may appear as it belong to rte_bus_pci module.
   Hence it is kept as rte_bus_mlx5_pci which matches with other
   modules as mlx5_vdpa, mlx5_net.
 - Dropped 2nd patch and replace with new 6th patch.
 - Avoided new file, added macro to rte_bitops.h
 - Inheriting ret_pci_driver instead of rte_driver
 - Added design and description of the mlx5_pci bus
 - Enhanced driver to honor RTE_PCI_DRV_PROBE_AGAIN drv_flag
 - Use anonymous structure for class search and code changes around it
 - Define static for class comination array
 - Use RTE_DIM to find array size
 - Added OOM check for strdup()
 - Renamed copy variable to nstr_orig
 - Returning negagive error code
 - Returning directly if match entry found
 - Use compat condition check
 - Avoided cutting error message string
 - Use uint32_t datatype instead of enum mlx5_class
 - Changed logic to parse device arguments only once during probe()
 - Added check to fail driver probe if multiple classes register with
   DMA ops
 - Renamed function to parse_class_options
 - Migreate API from rte_driver to rte_pci_driver

Parav Pandit (9):
  eal: introduce macros for getting value for bit
  eal: introduce RTE common initialization level
  common/mlx5: fix empty input style in glue wrappers
  common/mlx5: change mlx5 class enum values as bits
  common/mlx5: use common rte priority
  bus/mlx5_pci: add mlx5 PCI bus
  bus/mlx5_pci: register a PCI driver
  bus/mlx5_pci: enable net and vDPA to use mlx5 PCI bus driver
  common/mlx5: remove class checks from individual driver

 MAINTAINERS                                   |   5 +
 drivers/bus/Makefile                          |   3 +
 drivers/bus/meson.build                       |   2 +-
 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/Makefile                 |  40 ++
 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/meson.build              |  19 +
 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/mlx5_pci_bus.c           | 522 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/rte_bus_mlx5_pci.h       |  84 +++
 .../bus/mlx5_pci/rte_bus_mlx5_pci_version.map |   5 +
 drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_glue.h         |   4 +-
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c             |  39 +-
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.h             |   7 +-
 .../common/mlx5/rte_common_mlx5_version.map   |   2 -
 drivers/net/mlx5/Makefile                     |   3 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c              |   6 -
 drivers/net/mlx5/meson.build                  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c                       |  26 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h                       |   1 -
 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/Makefile                    |   3 +-
 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/meson.build                 |   2 +-
 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c                 |  30 +-
 lib/librte_eal/include/rte_bitops.h           |   8 +
 lib/librte_eal/include/rte_common.h           |   1 +
 mk/rte.app.mk                                 |   1 +
 23 files changed, 730 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/meson.build
 create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/mlx5_pci_bus.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/rte_bus_mlx5_pci.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mlx5_pci/rte_bus_mlx5_pci_version.map

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