Re: [RFC v4 0/3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware backend

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2019/9/19 下午11:45, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:08:11PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2019/9/18 下午10:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>> So I have some questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Compared to method 2, what's the advantage of creating a new vhost char
>>>>>> device? I guess it's for keep the API compatibility?
>>>>> One benefit is that we can avoid doing vhost ioctls on
>>>>> VFIO device fd.
>>>> Yes, but any benefit from doing this?
>>> It does seem a bit more modular, but it's certainly not a big deal.
>> Ok, if we go this way, it could be as simple as provide some callback to
>> vhost, then vhost can just forward the ioctl through parent_ops.
>>
>>>>>> 2) For method 2, is there any easy way for user/admin to distinguish e.g
>>>>>> ordinary vfio-mdev for vhost from ordinary vfio-mdev?
>>>>> I think device-api could be a choice.
>>>> Ok.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> I saw you introduce
>>>>>> ops matching helper but it's not friendly to management.
>>>>> The ops matching helper is just to check whether a given
>>>>> vfio-device is based on a mdev device.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3) A drawback of 1) and 2) is that it must follow vfio_device_ops that
>>>>>> assumes the parameter comes from userspace, it prevents support kernel
>>>>>> virtio drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 4) So comes the idea of method 3, since it register a new vhost-mdev driver,
>>>>>> we can use device specific ops instead of VFIO ones, then we can have a
>>>>>> common API between vDPA parent and vhost-mdev/virtio-mdev drivers.
>>>>> As the above draft shows, this requires introducing a new
>>>>> VFIO device driver. I think Alex's opinion matters here.
>> Just to clarify, a new type of mdev driver but provides dummy
>> vfio_device_ops for VFIO to make container DMA ioctl work.
> I see. Thanks! IIUC, you mean we can provide a very tiny
> VFIO device driver in drivers/vhost/mdev.c, e.g.:
>
> static int vfio_vhost_mdev_open(void *device_data)
> {
> 	if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
> 		return -ENODEV;
> 	return 0;
> }
>
> static void vfio_vhost_mdev_release(void *device_data)
> {
> 	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
> }
>
> static const struct vfio_device_ops vfio_vhost_mdev_dev_ops = {
> 	.name		= "vfio-vhost-mdev",
> 	.open		= vfio_vhost_mdev_open,
> 	.release	= vfio_vhost_mdev_release,
> };
>
> static int vhost_mdev_probe(struct device *dev)
> {
> 	struct mdev_device *mdev = to_mdev_device(dev);
>
> 	... Check the mdev device_id proposed in ...
> 	... https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/12/151 ...
>
> 	return vfio_add_group_dev(dev, &vfio_vhost_mdev_dev_ops, mdev);
> }
>
> static void vhost_mdev_remove(struct device *dev)
> {
> 	vfio_del_group_dev(dev);
> }
>
> static struct mdev_driver vhost_mdev_driver = {
> 	.name	= "vhost_mdev",
> 	.probe	= vhost_mdev_probe,
> 	.remove	= vhost_mdev_remove,
> };
>
> So we can bind above mdev driver to the virtio-mdev compatible
> mdev devices when we want to use vhost-mdev.
>
> After binding above driver to the mdev device, we can setup IOMMU
> via VFIO and get VFIO device fd of this mdev device, and pass it
> to vhost fd (/dev/vhost-mdev) with a SET_BACKEND ioctl.
>
> Thanks,
> Tiwei


Yes, something like this.

Thanks


>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>>> Yes, it is.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>