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Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:13:29 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/8] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support


On 2019/9/25 下午4:24, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Jason Wang [mailto:jasowang@...hat.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:53 PM
>>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> There are hardware that can do virtio datapath offloading while having
>> its own control path. This path tries to implement a mdev based
>> unified API to support using kernel virtio driver to drive those
>> devices. This is done by introducing a new mdev transport for virtio
>> (virtio_mdev) and register itself as a new kind of mdev driver. Then
>> it provides a unified way for kernel virtio driver to talk with mdev
>> device implementation.
>>
>> Though the series only contains kernel driver support, the goal is to
>> make the transport generic enough to support userspace drivers. This
>> means vhost-mdev[1] could be built on top as well by resuing the
>> transport.
>>
>> A sample driver is also implemented which simulate a virito-net
>> loopback ethernet device on top of vringh + workqueue. This could be
>> used as a reference implementation for real hardware driver.
>>
>> Consider mdev framework only support VFIO device and driver right now,
>> this series also extend it to support other types. This is done
>> through introducing class id to the device and pairing it with
>> id_talbe claimed by the driver. On top, this seris also decouple
> id_table claimed ... this series ...


Let me fix in V3.

Thanks


>
>> device specific parents ops out of the common ones.
>>
>> Pktgen test was done with virito-net + mvnet loop back device.
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/16/869
>>
>> Changes from V1:
>>
>> - move virtio_mdev.c to drivers/virtio
>> - store class_id in mdev_device instead of mdev_parent
>> - store device_ops in mdev_device instead of mdev_parent
>> - reorder the patch, vringh fix comes first
>> - really silent compiling warnings
>> - really switch to use u16 for class_id
>> - uevent and modpost support for mdev class_id
>> - vraious tweaks per comments from Parav
>>
>> Changes from RFC-V2:
>>
>> - silent compile warnings on some specific configuration
>> - use u16 instead u8 for class id
>> - reseve MDEV_ID_VHOST for future vhost-mdev work
>> - introduce "virtio" type for mvnet and make "vhost" type for future
>>   work
>> - add entries in MAINTAINER
>> - tweak and typos fixes in commit log
>>
>> Changes from RFC-V1:
>>
>> - rename device id to class id
>> - add docs for class id and device specific ops (device_ops)
>> - split device_ops into seperate headers
>> - drop the mdev_set_dma_ops()
>> - use device_ops to implement the transport API, then it's not a part
>>   of UAPI any more
>> - use GFP_ATOMIC in mvnet sample device and other tweaks
>> - set_vring_base/get_vring_base support for mvnet device
>>
>> Jason Wang (8):
>>   vringh: fix copy direction of vringh_iov_push_kern()
>>   mdev: class id support
>>   mdev: bus uevent support
>>   modpost: add support for mdev class id
>>   mdev: introduce device specific ops
>>   mdev: introduce virtio device and its device ops
>>   virtio: introduce a mdev based transport
>>   docs: sample driver to demonstrate how to implement virtio-mdev
>>     framework
>>
>>  .../driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst       |   7 +-
>>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   2 +
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/kvmgt.c              |  18 +-
>>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_ops.c               |  18 +-
>>  drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_ops.c             |  14 +-
>>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c                 |  19 +
>>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_driver.c               |  22 +
>>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h              |   2 +
>>  drivers/vfio/mdev/vfio_mdev.c                 |  45 +-
>>  drivers/vhost/vringh.c                        |   8 +-
>>  drivers/virtio/Kconfig                        |   7 +
>>  drivers/virtio/Makefile                       |   1 +
>>  drivers/virtio/virtio_mdev.c                  | 417 +++++++++++
>>  include/linux/mdev.h                          |  52 +-
>>  include/linux/mod_devicetable.h               |   8 +
>>  include/linux/vfio_mdev.h                     |  52 ++
>>  include/linux/virtio_mdev.h                   | 145 ++++
>>  samples/Kconfig                               |   7 +
>>  samples/vfio-mdev/Makefile                    |   1 +
>>  samples/vfio-mdev/mbochs.c                    |  20 +-
>>  samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy.c                      |  20 +-
>>  samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c                      |  18 +-
>>  samples/vfio-mdev/mvnet.c                     | 692 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.c             |   3 +
>>  scripts/mod/file2alias.c                      |  10 +
>>  25 files changed, 1524 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/virtio/virtio_mdev.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/vfio_mdev.h
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_mdev.h
>>  create mode 100644 samples/vfio-mdev/mvnet.c
>>
>> --
>> 2.19.1

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