Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Packed ring for vhost

[Jason Wang]

On 2018å02æ14æ 10:37, Jason Wang wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> This RFC implement a subset of packed ring which was described at
> https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-docs/blob/master/virtio-v1.1-packed-wd07.pdf
> . The code were tested with pmd implement by Jens at
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/089417.html. Minor
> change was needed for pmd codes to kick virtqueue since it assumes a
> busy polling backend.
>
> Test were done between localhost and guest. Testpmd (rxonly) in guest
> reports 2.4Mpps. Testpmd (txonly) repots about 2.1Mpps.
>
> It's not a complete implemention, here's what were missed:
>
> - Device Area
> - Driver Area
> - Descriptor indirection
> - Zerocopy may not be functional
> - Migration path is not tested
> - Vhost devices except for net
> - vIOMMU can not work (mainly because the metadata prefetch is not
>    implemented).
> - See FIXME/TODO in the codes for more details
> - No batching or other optimizations were implemented
>
> For a quick prototype, this series open code the tracking of warp
> counter and descriptor index at net device. This will be addressed in
> the future by:
>
> - Move get_rx_bufs() from net.c to vhost.c
> - Let vhost_get_vq_desc() returns vring_used_elem instad of head id
>
> With the above, we can hide the internal (at least part of) vring
> layout from specific device.
>
> Please review.
>
> Thanks

It's near spring festival in China, will probably reply after the holiday.

Thanks