[PATCH v3 4/4] vhost: add device op to offload the interrupt kick

[David Marchand]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 3:02 PM Maxime Coquelin
<maxime.coquelin at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/23 11:09, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> > This patch adds an operation callback which gets called every time the
> > library wants to call eventfd_write(). This eventfd_write() call could
> > result in a system call, which could potentially block the PMD thread.
> >
> > The callback function can decide whether it's ok to handle the
> > eventfd_write() now or have the newly introduced function,
> > rte_vhost_notify_guest(), called at a later time.
> >
> > This can be used by 3rd party applications, like OVS, to avoid system
> > calls being called as part of the PMD threads.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/vhost/meson.build |    2 ++
> >   lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h |   23 +++++++++++++++++-
> >   lib/vhost/socket.c    |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >   lib/vhost/version.map |    9 +++++++
> >   lib/vhost/vhost.c     |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   lib/vhost/vhost.h     |   58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >   6 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >
>
>
> The patch looks good to me, but that's the first time we use function
> versioning in Vhost library, so I'd like another pair of eyes to be sure
> I don't miss anything.
>
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

There may be some enhancement to do in the symbol check (wrt to the
warning http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2023-May/394865.html)
but otherwise the versioning part lgtm.


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David Marchand