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    "name": "[v4,00/44] net/virtio: Virtio PMD rework",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/44] net/virtio: Virtio PMD rework",
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    "content": "This V3 fixes comments from Chenbo on patch 44 and\nimplements the ABI exception in patch 2.\n\nThis series significantly rework Virtio PMD to improve\nthe Virtio-user PMD and its backends integration.\n\nFirst part of the series removes the dependency of\nVirtio-user ethdev on Virtio PCI, by creating generic\nfiles, adding per-bus meta data, ...\n\nMain (if not single) functionnal change of this first\npart is to remove the hack for Virtio-user to work in\nIOVA as PA mode, this hack being very fragile.\n\nSecond part of the series reworks Virtio-user internal,\nby reworking the requests handling so that vDPA and Kernel\nbackends no more hack into being Vhost-user backend. It\nimplies implementing new ops for all the request types.\nAlso, all the backend specific actions are moved from the\nvirtio_user_dev.c and virtio_user_ethdev.c to their\nbackend files.\n\nOnly functionnal change in this second part is making the\nVhost-user server mode blocking at init time, as long as\na client is not connected. The goal of this change is to\nmake the Vhost-user support much more robust, as without\nblocking, the driver has to assume features that are going\nto be supported by the client, which is very fragile and\nerror prone. As a side-effect, it also simplifies the\nlogic nin several place of the virtio-user PMD.\n\nMain changes in v4:\n- Add ABI exception (David)\n- Close FDs only up to max_queue_pairs\n- virtio_user_dev_uninit_notify() to return void\n\nMain changes in v3:\n- Rename .intr_event to .intr_detect\n- Rework last patch, properly clean allocated resources\n  on failure.\n- Rebase on top of latest net-next/main\n- Minor typo fixes in comments and log improvements\n\nMain changes in v2:\n===================\n- Introduce vdev driver flag for drivers to require IOVA VA mode\n- Rebase on top of -rc1 changes\n- Fix regressions introduced in V1 (vhost-kernel broken, vhost-user reconnect...)\n- Various minor issues & typos fixed\n- Fix status feature issue introduced in v20.11, only reproduceable now that server\n  mode is made blocking\n- Improve failure handling in Virtio-user\n- Improve logging\n\nTesting coverage (All passed)\n=============================\n- Virtio-pci PMD\n * Virtio PMD in guest with Vhost-user backend in host\n * Virtio PMD in guest with Vhost-kernel backend in host\n- Virtio-user PMD with Vhost-user backend\n * Vhost-user PMD server <-> Virtio-user client PMD IO loopback\n * Vhost-user PMD client <-> Virtio-user server PMD IO loopback\n * Vhost-user PMD client <-> Virtio-user server PMD reconnect\n- Virtio-user PMD with Vhost-kernel backend\n * iperf test case\n * Txonly testpmd\n- Virtio-user PMD with Vhost-vDPA backend\n * vdpa-sim (IO loopback)\n * CX-6 DX Kernel vDPA (Tx only)\n\nMaxime Coquelin (44):\n  bus/vdev: add helper to get vdev from ethdev\n  bus/vdev: add driver IOVA VA mode requirement\n  net/virtio: fix getting old status on reconnect\n  net/virtio: introduce Virtio bus type\n  net/virtio: refactor virtio-user device\n  net/virtio: introduce PCI device metadata\n  net/virtio: move PCI device init in dedicated file\n  net/virtio: move PCI specific dev init to PCI ethdev init\n  net/virtio: move MSIX detection to PCI ethdev\n  net/virtio: force IOVA as VA mode for Virtio-user\n  net/virtio: store PCI type in Virtio device metadata\n  net/virtio: add callback for device closing\n  net/virtio: validate features at bus level\n  net/virtio: remove bus type enum\n  net/virtio: move PCI-specific fields to PCI device\n  net/virtio: pack virtio HW struct\n  net/virtio: move legacy IO to Virtio PCI\n  net/virtio: introduce generic virtio header\n  net/virtio: move features definition to generic header\n  net/virtio: move virtqueue defines in generic header\n  net/virtio: move config definitions to generic header\n  net/virtio: make interrupt handling more generic\n  net/virtio: move vring alignment to generic header\n  net/virtio: remove last PCI refs in non-PCI code\n  net/virtio: make Vhost-user request sender consistent\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user ops to set owner\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user features ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user protocol features ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user memory tables ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user vring setting ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user vring file ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user vring address ops\n  net/virtio: add Virtio-user status ops\n  net/virtio: remove useless request ops\n  net/virtio: improve Virtio-user errors handling\n  net/virtio: move Vhost-user requests to Vhost-user backend\n  net/virtio: make server mode blocking\n  net/virtio: move protocol features to Vhost-user\n  net/virtio: introduce backend data\n  net/virtio: move Vhost-user specifics to its backend\n  net/virtio: move Vhost-kernel data to its backend\n  net/virtio: move Vhost-vDPA data to its backend\n  net/virtio: improve Vhost-user error logging\n  net/virtio: handle Virtio-user setup failure properly\n\n devtools/libabigail.abignore                  |   2 +\n drivers/bus/vdev/rte_bus_vdev.h               |   6 +\n drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c                       |  29 +\n drivers/net/virtio/meson.build                |   6 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio.c                   |  71 ++\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio.h                   | 246 +++++\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c            | 457 +++------\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.h            |   6 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c               | 448 +++++----\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.h               | 286 +-----\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci_ethdev.c        | 226 +++++\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ring.h              |   2 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c              |  90 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_packed.h       |  10 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_packed_avx.h   |  10 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_packed_neon.h  |  10 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple.h       |   3 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost.h        |  79 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel.c | 461 ++++++---\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel_tap.c |  25 +-\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel_tap.h |   1 +\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_user.c   | 898 ++++++++++++++----\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_vdpa.c   | 323 +++++--\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c  | 573 ++++++-----\n .../net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.h  |  21 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c       | 301 +-----\n drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.c                |   6 +-\n drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h                |  45 +-\n 28 files changed, 2742 insertions(+), 1899 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/virtio.c\n create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/virtio.h\n create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci_ethdev.c"
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