Re: [PATCH 18/52] virtio-fs: Map cache using the values from the capabilities

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:44:34 +0000
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:24:31 +0100
> > David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > On 13.12.18 13:15, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:  
> > > > * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:    
> > > >> On 13.12.18 11:00, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:    
> > > >>> * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:    
> > > >>>> On 13.12.18 10:13, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:    
> > > >>>>> * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:    
> > > >>>>>> On 10.12.18 18:12, Vivek Goyal wrote:    
> > > >>>>>>> Instead of assuming we had the fixed bar for the cache, use the
> > > >>>>>>> value from the capabilities.
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >>>>>>> ---
> > > >>>>>>>  fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> > > >>>>>>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > > >>>>>>>
> > > >>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > > >>>>>>> index 60d496c16841..55bac1465536 100644
> > > >>>>>>> --- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > > >>>>>>> +++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > > >>>>>>> @@ -14,11 +14,6 @@
> > > >>>>>>>  #include <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> > > >>>>>>>  #include "fuse_i.h"
> > > >>>>>>>  
> > > >>>>>>> -enum {
> > > >>>>>>> -	/* PCI BAR number of the virtio-fs DAX window */
> > > >>>>>>> -	VIRTIO_FS_WINDOW_BAR = 2,
> > > >>>>>>> -};
> > > >>>>>>> -
> > > >>>>>>>  /* List of virtio-fs device instances and a lock for the list */
> > > >>>>>>>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(virtio_fs_mutex);
> > > >>>>>>>  static LIST_HEAD(virtio_fs_instances);
> > > >>>>>>> @@ -518,7 +513,7 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > > >>>>>>>  	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
> > > >>>>>>>  	struct pci_dev *pci_dev;
> > > >>>>>>>  	phys_addr_t phys_addr;
> > > >>>>>>> -	size_t len;
> > > >>>>>>> +	size_t bar_len;
> > > >>>>>>>  	int ret;
> > > >>>>>>>  	u8 have_cache, cache_bar;
> > > >>>>>>>  	u64 cache_offset, cache_len;
> > > >>>>>>> @@ -551,17 +546,13 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > > >>>>>>>          }
> > > >>>>>>>  
> > > >>>>>>>  	/* TODO handle case where device doesn't expose BAR? */    
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> For virtio-pmem we decided to not go via BARs as this would effectively
> > > >>>>>> make it only usable for virtio-pci implementers. Instead, we are going
> > > >>>>>> to export the applicable physical device region directly (e.g.
> > > >>>>>> phys_start, phys_size in virtio config), so it is decoupled from PCI
> > > >>>>>> details. Doing the same for virtio-fs would allow e.g. also virtio-ccw
> > > >>>>>> to make eventually use of this.    
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> That makes it a very odd looking PCI device;  I can see that with
> > > >>>>> virtio-pmem it makes some sense, given that it's job is to expose
> > > >>>>> arbitrary chunks of memory.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Dave    
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Well, the fact that your are
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> - including <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> > > >>>> - adding pci related code
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> in/to fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> tells me that these properties might be better communicated on the
> > > >>>> virtio layer, not on the PCI layer.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Or do you really want to glue virtio-fs to virtio-pci for all eternity?    
> > > >>>
> > > >>> No, these need cleaning up; and the split within the bar
> > > >>> is probably going to change to be communicated via virtio layer
> > > >>> rather than pci capabilities.  However, I don't want to make our PCI
> > > >>> device look odd, just to make portability to non-PCI devices - so it's
> > > >>> right to make the split appropriately, but still to use PCI bars
> > > >>> for what they were designed for.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Dave    
> > > >>
> > > >> Let's discuss after the cleanup. In general I am not convinced this is
> > > >> the right thing to do. Using virtio-pci for anything else than pure
> > > >> transport smells like bad design to me (well, I am no virtio expert
> > > >> after all ;) ). No matter what PCI bars were designed for. If we can't
> > > >> get the same running with e.g. virtio-ccw or virtio-whatever, it is
> > > >> broken by design (or an addon that is tightly glued to virtio-pci, if
> > > >> that is the general idea).    
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sure we can find alternatives for virtio-*, so I wouldn't expect
> > > > it to be glued to virtio-pci.
> > > > 
> > > > Dave    
> > > 
> > > As s390x does not have the concept of memory mapped io (RAM is RAM,
> > > nothing else), this is not architectured. vitio-ccw can therefore not
> > > define anything similar like that. However, in virtual environments we
> > > can do whatever we want on top of the pure transport (e.g. on the virtio
> > > layer).
> > > 
> > > Conny can correct me if I am wrong.  
> > 
> > I don't think you're wrong, but I haven't read the code yet and I'm
> > therefore not aware of the purpose of this BAR.
> > 
> > Generally, if there is a memory location shared between host and guest,
> > we need a way to communicate its location, which will likely differ
> > between transports. For ccw, I could imagine a new channel command
> > dedicated to exchanging configuration information (similar to what
> > exists today to communicate the locations of virtqueues), but I'd
> > rather not go down this path.
> > 
> > Without reading the code/design further, can we use one of the
> > following instead of a BAR:
> > - a virtqueue;
> > - something in config space?
> > That would be implementable by any virtio transport.  
> 
> The way I think about this is that we wish to extend the VIRTIO device
> model with the concept of shared memory.  virtio-fs, virtio-gpu, and
> virtio-vhost-user all have requirements for shared memory.
> 
> This seems like a transport-level issue to me.  PCI supports
> memory-mapped I/O and that's the right place to do it.  If you try to
> put it into config space or the virtqueue, you'll end up with something
> that cannot be realized as a PCI device because it bypasses PCI bus
> address translation.
> 
> If CCW needs a side-channel, that's fine.  But that side-channel is a
> CCW-specific mechanism and probably doesn't apply to all other
> transports.

But virtio-gpu works with ccw right now (I haven't checked what it
uses); can virtio-fs use an equivalent method?

If there's a more generic case to be made for extending virtio devices
with a way to handle shared memory, a ccw for that would be fine. I
just want to avoid adding new ccws for everything as the namespace is
not infinite.

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