Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] vdpa: add new vdpa attribute VDPA_ATTR_DEV_F_VERSION_1

[Jason Wang]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:31 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:24:53AM +0800, Wu Zongyong wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:58:28AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:24:51PM +0800, Wu Zongyong wrote:
> > > > This new attribute advertises whether the vdpa device is legacy or not.
> > > > Users can pick right virtqueue size if the vdpa device is legacy which
> > > > doesn't support to change virtqueue size.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Wu Zongyong <wuzongyong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > So if we are bothering with legacy, I think there are
> > > several things to do when building the interface
> > > - support transitional devices, that is allow userspace
> > >   to tell device it's in legacy mode
> > > - support reporting/setting supporting endian-ness
> >
> > It's true if we try to implement a general drvier for legacy.
> > But this series is dedicated to implement a driver only for ENI. Is it
> > necessary to implement what you said here in this series?
>
> To a certain degree, yes.
>
> I am thinking about the UAPI here. The new attribute is part of that.
> E.g. userspace consuming this needs to be more or less hardware agnostic
> and not depend on specifics of ENI.
>
> Otherwise if userspace assumes legacy==eni then it will break with
> other hardware.
>
> One way to test how generic it all is would be adding legacy support in
> the simulator.

I don't get why we need to support legacy devices e.g it doesn't have
ACCESS_PLATFORM support. I think we should re-consider to mandate 1.0
devices.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210408082648.20145-1-jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx/

And it will complicate all of the different layers.

Thanks

>
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c          | 6 ++++++
> > > >  drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 7 ++++++-
> > > >  include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h    | 1 +
> > > >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> > > > index 1dc121a07a93..533d7f589eee 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c
> > > > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> > > >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/vdpa.h>
> > > >  #include <uapi/linux/vdpa.h>
> > > > +#include <uapi/linux/virtio_config.h>
> > > >  #include <net/genetlink.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h>
> > > >
> > > > @@ -494,6 +495,7 @@ vdpa_dev_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq
> > > >   u16 max_vq_size;
> > > >   u32 device_id;
> > > >   u32 vendor_id;
> > > > + u64 features;
> > > >   void *hdr;
> > > >   int err;
> > > >
> > > > @@ -508,6 +510,7 @@ vdpa_dev_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq
> > > >   device_id = vdev->config->get_device_id(vdev);
> > > >   vendor_id = vdev->config->get_vendor_id(vdev);
> > > >   max_vq_size = vdev->config->get_vq_num_max(vdev);
> > > > + features = vdev->config->get_features(vdev);
> > > >
> > > >   err = -EMSGSIZE;
> > > >   if (nla_put_string(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NAME, dev_name(&vdev->dev)))
> > > > @@ -520,6 +523,9 @@ vdpa_dev_fill(struct vdpa_device *vdev, struct sk_buff *msg, u32 portid, u32 seq
> > > >           goto msg_err;
> > > >   if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_MAX_VQ_SIZE, max_vq_size))
> > > >           goto msg_err;
> > > > + if (features & BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1) &&
> > > > +     nla_put_flag(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_VERSION_1))
> > > > +         goto msg_err;
> > > >
> > > >   genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
> > > >   return 0;
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> > > > index 72eaef2caeb1..1cba957c4cdc 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
> > > > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> > > >   *
> > > >   */
> > > >
> > > > +#include "linux/virtio_config.h"
> > > >  #include <linux/init.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/module.h>
> > > >  #include <linux/device.h>
> > > > @@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ virtio_vdpa_setup_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int index,
> > > >   /* Assume split virtqueue, switch to packed if necessary */
> > > >   struct vdpa_vq_state state = {0};
> > > >   unsigned long flags;
> > > > + bool may_reduce_num = false;
> > > >   u32 align, num;
> > > >   int err;
> > > >
> > > > @@ -169,10 +171,13 @@ virtio_vdpa_setup_vq(struct virtio_device *vdev, unsigned int index,
> > > >           goto error_new_virtqueue;
> > > >   }
> > > >
> > > > + if (ops->get_features(vdpa) & BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1))
> > > > +         may_reduce_num = true;
> > > > +
> > > >   /* Create the vring */
> > > >   align = ops->get_vq_align(vdpa);
> > > >   vq = vring_create_virtqueue(index, num, align, vdev,
> > > > -                             true, true, ctx,
> > > > +                             true, may_reduce_num, ctx,
> > > >                               virtio_vdpa_notify, callback, name);
> > > >   if (!vq) {
> > > >           err = -ENOMEM;
> > > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h b/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h
> > > > index 66a41e4ec163..ce0b74276a5b 100644
> > > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h
> > > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h
> > > > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ enum vdpa_attr {
> > > >   VDPA_ATTR_DEV_VENDOR_ID,                /* u32 */
> > > >   VDPA_ATTR_DEV_MAX_VQS,                  /* u32 */
> > > >   VDPA_ATTR_DEV_MAX_VQ_SIZE,              /* u16 */
> > > > + VDPA_ATTR_DEV_VERSION_1,                /* flag */
> > > >
> > > >   /* new attributes must be added above here */
> > > >   VDPA_ATTR_MAX,
> > > > --
> > > > 2.31.1
>