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Message-ID: <2b1ed697-ba3d-47d7-bda1-f4ef4790f11c@digitalocean.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:16:56 -0500
From: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@...italocean.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>, eli@...lanox.com, mst@...hat.com,
xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
eperezma@...hat.com, sashal@...nel.org, yuehaibing@...wei.com,
steven.sistare@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Why is set_config not supported in mlx5_vnet?
Hello,
On 8/26/24 9:07 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 3:23 AM Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@...italocean.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 8/26/24 10:53 AM, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
>>> On 26.08.24 16:26, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
>>>> Hello Dragos,
>>>>
>>>> On 8/26/24 4:06 AM, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
>>>>> On 23.08.24 18:54, Carlos Bilbao wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm debugging my vDPA setup, and when using ioctl to retrieve the
>>>>>> configuration, I noticed that it's running in half duplex mode:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Configuration data (24 bytes):
>>>>>> MAC address: (Mac address)
>>>>>> Status: 0x0001
>>>>>> Max virtqueue pairs: 8
>>>>>> MTU: 1500
>>>>>> Speed: 0 Mb
>>>>>> Duplex: Half Duplex
>>>>>> RSS max key size: 0
>>>>>> RSS max indirection table length: 0
>>>>>> Supported hash types: 0x00000000
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe this might be contributing to the underperformance of vDPA.
>>>>> mlx5_vdpa vDPA devicess currently do not support the VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
>>>>> feature which reports speed and duplex. You can check the state on the
>>>>> PF.
>>>> According to ethtool, all my devices are running at full duplex. I assume I
>>>> can disregard this configuration output from the module then.
>>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>>>>> While looking into how to change this option for Mellanox, I read the following
>>>>>> kernel code in mlx5_vnet.c:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> static void mlx5_vdpa_set_config(struct vdpa_device *vdev, unsigned int offset, const void *buf,
>>>>>> unsigned int len)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> /* not supported */
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was wondering why this is the case.
>>>>> TBH, I don't know why it was not added. But in general, the control VQ is the
>>>>> better way as it's dynamic.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there another way for me to change
>>>>>> these configuration settings?
>>>>>>
>>>>> The configuration is done using control VQ for most things (MTU, MAC, VQs,
>>>>> etc). Make sure that you have the CTRL_VQ feature set (should be on by
>>>>> default). It should appear in `vdpa mgmtdev show` and `vdpa dev config
>>>>> show`.
>>>> I see that CTRL_VQ is indeed enabled. Is there any documentation on how to
>>>> use the control VQ to get/set vDPA configuration values?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You are most likely using it already through through qemu. You can check
>>> if the CTR_VQ feature also shows up in the output of `vdpa dev config show`.
>>>
>>> What values are you trying to configure btw?
>>
>> Yes, CTRL_VQ also shows up in vdpa dev config show. There isn't a specific
>> value I want to configure ATM, but my vDPA isn't performing as expected, so
>> I'm investigating potential issues. Below is the code I used to retrieve
>> the configuration from the driver; I'd be happy to send it as a patch if
>> you or someone else reviews it.
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dragos
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Carlos
>>
>> ---
>>
>> From ab6ea66c926eaf1e95eb5d73bc23183e0021ee27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@...edu>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:24:56 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] mlx5: Add support to update the vDPA configuration
>>
>> This is needed for VHOST_VDPA_SET_CONFIG.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@...italocean.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> index b56aae3f7be3..da31c743b2b9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
>> @@ -2909,14 +2909,32 @@ static void mlx5_vdpa_get_config(struct vdpa_device *vdev, unsigned int offset,
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev = to_mvdev(vdev);
>> struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev);
>>
>> - if (offset + len <= sizeof(struct virtio_net_config))
>> + if (offset + len <= sizeof(struct virtio_net_config)) {
>> memcpy(buf, (u8 *)&ndev->config + offset, len);
>> + }
>> + else
>> + {
>> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Offset and length out of bounds\n",
>> + __func__);
>> + }
>> +
>> }
>>
>> static void mlx5_vdpa_set_config(struct vdpa_device *vdev, unsigned int offset, const void *buf,
>> unsigned int len)
>> {
>> - /* not supported */
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev = to_mvdev(vdev);
>> + struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev);
>> +
>> + if (offset + len <= sizeof(struct virtio_net_config))
>> + {
>> + memcpy((u8 *)&ndev->config + offset, buf, len);
>> + }
>> + else
>> + {
>> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Offset and length out of bounds\n",
>> + __func__);
>> + }
>> }
> This should follow the virtio-spec, for modern virtio-net devices,
> most of the fields are read only.
>From mlx5_vnet.c function mlx5v_probe:
mgtdev->mgtdev.config_attr_mask = BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MACADDR) |
BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MAX_VQP) |
BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MTU) |
BIT_ULL(VDPA_ATTR_DEV_FEATURES);
Does this mean these are the fields that set_config can update? I'm a bit
confused because, according to the virtio spec, I thought only speed and
duplex were not read-only -- but I was also told updating them isn't
supported by vDPA devices.
> Thanks
>
>> static u32 mlx5_vdpa_get_generation(struct vdpa_device *vdev)
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>>
Thanks, Carlos
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