Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: Add support for doorbell bypassing

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Apr 28 2021 - 22:43:30 EST



在 2021/4/29 上午4:53, Si-Wei Liu 写道:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

在 2021/4/25 下午9:25, Eli Cohen 写道:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:59:11PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
在 2021/4/22 下午4:39, Eli Cohen 写道:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:21:45PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
在 2021/4/22 下午4:07, Eli Cohen 写道:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:03:58AM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:37:38AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
在 2021/4/21 下午6:41, Eli Cohen 写道:
Implement mlx5_get_vq_notification() to return the doorbell address.
Size is set to one system page as required.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c | 1 +
drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
index b6cc53ba980c..49de62cda598 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mlx5_vdpa.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct mlx5_vdpa_resources {
u32 pdn;
struct mlx5_uars_page *uar;
void __iomem *kick_addr;
+ u64 phys_kick_addr;
u16 uid;
u32 null_mkey;
bool valid;
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c
index 6521cbd0f5c2..665f8fc1710f 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/resources.c
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ int mlx5_vdpa_alloc_resources(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev)
goto err_key;
kick_addr = mdev->bar_addr + offset;
+ res->phys_kick_addr = kick_addr;
res->kick_addr = ioremap(kick_addr, PAGE_SIZE);
if (!res->kick_addr) {
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
index 10c5fef3c020..680751074d2a 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
@@ -1865,8 +1865,14 @@ static void mlx5_vdpa_free(struct vdpa_device *vdev)
static struct vdpa_notification_area mlx5_get_vq_notification(struct vdpa_device *vdev, u16 idx)
{
+ struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev = to_mvdev(vdev);
struct vdpa_notification_area ret = {};
+ struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev;
+
+ ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev);
+ ret.addr = (phys_addr_t)ndev->mvdev.res.phys_kick_addr;
+ ret.size = PAGE_SIZE;
Note that the page will be mapped in to guest, so it's only safe if the
doorbeel exclusively own the page. This means if there're other registers in
the page, we can not let the doorbell bypass to work.

So this is suspicious at least in the case of subfunction where we calculate
the bar length in mlx5_sf_dev_table_create() as:

table->sf_bar_length = 1 << (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, log_min_sf_size) + 12);

It looks to me this can only work for the arch with PAGE_SIZE = 4096,
otherwise we can map more into the userspace(guest).

Correct, so I guess I should return here 4096.
I'm not quite sure but since the calculation of the sf_bar_length is doen
via a shift of 12, it might be correct.

And please double check if the doorbell own the page exclusively.
I am checking if it is safe to map the any part of the SF's BAR to
userspace without harming other functions. If this is true, I will check
if I can return PAGE_SIZE without compromising security.
It's usally not safe and a layer violation if other registers are placed at
the same page.


I think we may
need to extend struct vdpa_notification_area to contain another field
offset which indicates the offset from addr where the actual doorbell
resides.
The movitiaton of the current design is to be fit seamless into how Qemu
model doorbell layouts currently:

1) page-per-vq, each vq has its own page aligned doorbell
2) 2 bytes doorbell, each vq has its own 2 byte aligend doorbell

Only 1) is support in vhost-vDPA (and vhost-user) since it's rather simple
and secure (page aligned) to be modelled and implemented via mmap().

Exporting a complex layout is possbile but requires careful design.

Actually, we had antoher option

3) shared doorbell: all virtqueue shares a single page aligned doorbell

This nearly matches we have in ConnectX devices. All the doorbells are
located at the same place. For 4K page size atchitectures it is aligned
to the start of the page. For larger page sizes it is not aligned.
If we don't allow to some offset within the page, it means that direct
doorbells will not work for 64K page size archs over ConnectX.

Right, just to clarify. This can still be model by the current
page-per-vq model. It means the doorbell will be mapped into different
pages for each virtqueue by Qemu. So from the view of Qemu or guest,
each virtqueue has its own doorbell in this case.
So this is the proposed model for mlx5 vdpa with doorbell per-instance
(rather than per-vq), assuming the exclusive ownership of mapped
doorbell page?


So let me try to explain here:

Let's assume the mlx5 vDPA has a exclusive page which is used for doorbell for all the virtqueues.

This fits for the page-per-vq model of Qemu:

1) The virtio-pci devices emulated by Qemu provides a per virtqueue doorbell (one page per vq)
2) Qemu use mmap() for map the doorbell separately
3) The vhost-vDPA prepare the page, and in this case, it always provide the same page for userspace/Qemu
4) So vhost-vDPA actually map the single physical page into multiple virtual pages and use those virtual pages for per-vq-doorbell with the help of KVM
5) The device can still distinguish the virtqueue index since it is required as the value wrote to the doorbell

So it should work like a charm. From qemu point of view, it's page-per-vq, but at the physical device level, it's the shared doorbell.




This is not yet supported by Qemu.

For "not supported" I meant present this (doorbells sharing) layout to
guest.
So it means this new layout perhaps will have to introduce new virtio
features to guest thus not compatible with eixsting driver?


Consider page-per-vq model works, I don't think we need to introduce a userspace noticeable shared doorbell model. The details were hidden perfectly with the help of vhost-vDPA and it provides extra flexibility. The mapping is done per vq via:

mmap(NULL, vq_index << PAGE_SIZE);

Userspace can decide to:

1) only map part of the virtqueue, this is very important for the case when Qemu want to intercept the virtqueue transactions when we want to implement control vq or shadow vq
2) devices can selectively provide doorbell mapping based on the vq index

Exporting other layout is possible but it will require a careful design of the uAPI and will complicate the management stuff (migration compatibility especially).

Thanks



-Siwei
Thanks


Thanks


I also think that the check in vhost_vdpa_mmap() should verify that the
returned size is not smaller than PAGE_SIZE because the returned address
Actually I think it's ok since you verify the size equals vma->vm_end -
vma->vm_start which must be at least PAGE_SIZE.
Yes.

Thanks


might just be aligned to PAGE_SIZE. I think this should be enoght but
maybe also use the same logic in vhost_vdpa_fault().