Date:   Tue, 24 May 2022 10:45:54 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>,
        Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vdpa: Add stop operation


在 2022/5/24 08:01, Si-Wei Liu 写道:
>
>
> On 5/23/2022 4:54 PM, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/23/2022 12:20 PM, Eugenio Perez Martin wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 12:13 PM Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/20/2022 10:23 AM, Eugenio Pérez wrote:
>>>>> This operation is optional: It it's not implemented, backend 
>>>>> feature bit
>>>>> will not be exposed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@...hat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 ++++++
>>>>>    1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/vdpa.h b/include/linux/vdpa.h
>>>>> index 15af802d41c4..ddfebc4e1e01 100644
>>>>> --- a/include/linux/vdpa.h
>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/vdpa.h
>>>>> @@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ struct vdpa_map_file {
>>>>>     * @reset:                  Reset device
>>>>>     *                          @vdev: vdpa device
>>>>>     *                          Returns integer: success (0) or 
>>>>> error (< 0)
>>>>> + * @stop:                    Stop or resume the device (optional, 
>>>>> but it must
>>>>> + *                           be implemented if require device stop)
>>>>> + *                           @vdev: vdpa device
>>>>> + *                           @stop: stop (true), not stop (false)
>>>>> + *                           Returns integer: success (0) or 
>>>>> error (< 0)
>>>> Is this uAPI meant to address all use cases described in the full 
>>>> blown
>>>> _F_STOP virtio spec proposal, such as:
>>>>
>>>> --------------%<--------------
>>>>
>>>> ...... the device MUST finish any in flight
>>>> operations after the driver writes STOP.  Depending on the device, it
>>>> can do it
>>>> in many ways as long as the driver can recover its normal operation 
>>>> if it
>>>> resumes the device without the need of resetting it:
>>>>
>>>> - Drain and wait for the completion of all pending requests until a
>>>>     convenient avail descriptor. Ignore any other posterior 
>>>> descriptor.
>>>> - Return a device-specific failure for these descriptors, so the 
>>>> driver
>>>>     can choose to retry or to cancel them.
>>>> - Mark them as done even if they are not, if the kind of device can
>>>>     assume to lose them.
>>>> --------------%<--------------
>>>>
>>> Right, this is totally underspecified in this series.
>>>
>>> I'll expand on it in the next version, but that text proposed to
>>> virtio-comment was complicated and misleading. I find better to get
>>> the previous version description. Would the next description work?
>>>
>>> ```
>>> After the return of ioctl, the device MUST finish any pending 
>>> operations like
>>> in flight requests. It must also preserve all the necessary state (the
>>> virtqueue vring base plus the possible device specific states)
>> Hmmm, "possible device specific states" is a bit vague. Does it 
>> require the device to save any device internal state that is not 
>> defined in the virtio spec - such as any failed in-flight requests to 
>> resubmit upon resume? Or you would lean on SVQ to intercept it in 
>> depth and save it with some other means? I think network device also 
>> has internal state such as flow steering state that needs bookkeeping 
>> as well.
> Noted that I understand you may introduce additional feature call 
> similar to VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD for (failed) in-flight request, 
> but since that's is a get interface, I assume the actual state 
> preserving should still take place in this STOP call.
>

Yes, I think so.


> -Siwei
>
>>
>> A follow-up question is what is the use of the `stop` argument of 
>> false, does it require the device to support resume? 


Yes, this is required by the hypervisor e.g for Qemu it supports vm 
stop/resume.


>> I seem to recall this is something to abandon in favor of device 
>> reset plus setting queue base/addr after. Or it's just a optional 
>> feature that may be device specific (if one can do so in simple way).


Rest is more like a workarond consider we don't have a stop API. 
Consider we don't add stop at the beginning, it can only be an optional 
feature.

Thanks


>>
>> -Siwei
>>
>>>   that is required
>>> for restoring in the future.
>>>
>>> In the future, we will provide features similar to 
>>> VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD
>>> so the device can save pending operations.
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing it out!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> E.g. do I assume correctly all in flight requests are flushed after
>>>> return from this uAPI call? Or some of pending requests may be subject
>>>> to loss or failure? How does the caller/user specify these various
>>>> options (if there are) for device stop?
>>>>
>>>> BTW, it would be nice to add the corresponding support to vdpa_sim_blk
>>>> as well to demo the stop handling. To just show it on vdpa-sim-net 
>>>> IMHO
>>>> is perhaps not so convincing.
>>>>
>>>> -Siwei
>>>>
>>>>>     * @get_config_size: Get the size of the configuration space 
>>>>> includes
>>>>>     *                          fields that are conditional on 
>>>>> feature bits.
>>>>>     *                          @vdev: vdpa device
>>>>> @@ -316,6 +321,7 @@ struct vdpa_config_ops {
>>>>>        u8 (*get_status)(struct vdpa_device *vdev);
>>>>>        void (*set_status)(struct vdpa_device *vdev, u8 status);
>>>>>        int (*reset)(struct vdpa_device *vdev);
>>>>> +     int (*stop)(struct vdpa_device *vdev, bool stop);
>>>>>        size_t (*get_config_size)(struct vdpa_device *vdev);
>>>>>        void (*get_config)(struct vdpa_device *vdev, unsigned int 
>>>>> offset,
>>>>>                           void *buf, unsigned int len);
>>
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