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    "date": "2023-03-31T15:42:32",
    "name": "[RFC,00/27] Add VDUSE support to Vhost library",
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        "From": "Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>",
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        "Cc": "Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>",
        "Subject": "[RFC 00/27] Add VDUSE support to Vhost library",
        "Date": "Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:42:32 +0200",
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    "content": "This series introduces a new type of backend, VDUSE,\nto the Vhost library.\n\nVDUSE stands for vDPA device in Userspace, it enables\nimplementing a Virtio device in userspace and have it\nattached to the Kernel vDPA bus.\n\nOnce attached to the vDPA bus, it can be used either by\nKernel Virtio drivers, like virtio-net in our case, via\nthe virtio-vdpa driver. Doing that, the device is visible\nto the Kernel networking stack and is exposed to userspace\nas a regular netdev.\n\nIt can also be exposed to userspace thanks to the\nvhost-vdpa driver, via a vhost-vdpa chardev that can be\npassed to QEMU or Virtio-user PMD.\n\nWhile VDUSE support is already available in upstream\nKernel, a couple of patches are required to support\nnetwork device type:\n\nhttps://gitlab.com/mcoquelin/linux/-/tree/vduse_networking_poc\n\nIn order to attach the created VDUSE device to the vDPA\nbus, a recent iproute2 version containing the vdpa tool is\nrequired.\n\nUsage:\n======\n\n1. Probe required Kernel modules\n# modprobe vdpa\n# modprobe vduse\n# modprobe virtio-vdpa\n\n2. Build (require vduse kernel headers to be available)\n# meson build\n# ninja -C build\n\n3. Create a VDUSE device (vduse0) using Vhost PMD with\ntestpmd (with 4 queue pairs in this example)\n# ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd --no-pci --vdev=net_vhost0,iface=/dev/vduse/vduse0,queues=4 --log-level=*:9  -- -i --txq=4 --rxq=4\n \n4. Attach the VDUSE device to the vDPA bus\n# vdpa dev add name vduse0 mgmtdev vduse\n=> The virtio-net netdev shows up (eth0 here)\n# ip l show eth0\n21: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000\n    link/ether c2:73:ea:a7:68:6d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff\n\n5. Start/stop traffic in testpmd\ntestpmd> start\ntestpmd> show port stats 0\n  ######################## NIC statistics for port 0  ########################\n  RX-packets: 11         RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  1482\n  RX-errors: 0\n  RX-nombuf:  0\n  TX-packets: 1          TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  62\n\n  Throughput (since last show)\n  Rx-pps:            0          Rx-bps:            0\n  Tx-pps:            0          Tx-bps:            0\n  ############################################################################\ntestpmd> stop\n\n6. Detach the VDUSE device from the vDPA bus\n# vdpa dev del vduse0\n\n7. Quit testpmd\ntestpmd> quit\n\nKnown issues & remaining work:\n==============================\n- Fix issue in FD manager (still polling while FD has been removed)\n- Add Netlink support in Vhost library\n- Support device reconnection\n- Support packed ring\n- Enable & test more Virtio features\n- Provide performance benchmark results\n\n\nMaxime Coquelin (27):\n  vhost: fix missing guest notif stat increment\n  vhost: fix invalid call FD handling\n  vhost: fix IOTLB entries overlap check with previous entry\n  vhost: add helper of IOTLB entries coredump\n  vhost: add helper for IOTLB entries shared page check\n  vhost: don't dump unneeded pages with IOTLB\n  vhost: change to single IOTLB cache per device\n  vhost: add offset field to IOTLB entries\n  vhost: add page size info to IOTLB entry\n  vhost: retry translating IOVA after IOTLB miss\n  vhost: introduce backend ops\n  vhost: add IOTLB cache entry removal callback\n  vhost: add helper for IOTLB misses\n  vhost: add helper for interrupt injection\n  vhost: add API to set max queue pairs\n  net/vhost: use API to set max queue pairs\n  vhost: add control virtqueue support\n  vhost: add VDUSE device creation and destruction\n  vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB miss\n  vhost: add VDUSE callback for IOTLB entry removal\n  vhost: add VDUSE callback for IRQ injection\n  vhost: add VDUSE events handler\n  vhost: add support for virtqueue state get event\n  vhost: add support for VDUSE status set event\n  vhost: add support for VDUSE IOTLB update event\n  vhost: add VDUSE device startup\n  vhost: add multiqueue support to VDUSE\n\n doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst |   4 +\n drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c   |   3 +\n lib/vhost/iotlb.c                   | 333 +++++++++--------\n lib/vhost/iotlb.h                   |  45 ++-\n lib/vhost/meson.build               |   5 +\n lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h               |  17 +\n lib/vhost/socket.c                  |  72 +++-\n lib/vhost/vduse.c                   | 553 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n lib/vhost/vduse.h                   |  33 ++\n lib/vhost/version.map               |   3 +\n lib/vhost/vhost.c                   |  51 ++-\n lib/vhost/vhost.h                   |  90 +++--\n lib/vhost/vhost_user.c              |  53 ++-\n lib/vhost/vhost_user.h              |   2 +-\n lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.c         | 282 ++++++++++++++\n lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.h         |  10 +\n 16 files changed, 1317 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 lib/vhost/vduse.c\n create mode 100644 lib/vhost/vduse.h\n create mode 100644 lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.c\n create mode 100644 lib/vhost/virtio_net_ctrl.h"
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