Hi Anatoly,
> -Original Message-
> From: Burakov, Anatoly
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 6:03 PM
> To: Wang, Xiao W ; Yigit, Ferruh
>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coque...@redhat.com; Wang, Zhihong
> ; Bie, Tiwei ; Tan, Jianfeng
> ; Liang, Cunming ; Daly,
> Dan ; tho...@monjalon.net; Chen, Junjie J
>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] vfio: extend data structure for multi container
>
> On 15-Apr-18 4:33 PM, Xiao Wang wrote:
> > Currently eal vfio framework binds vfio group fd to the default
> > container fd during rte_vfio_setup_device, while in some cases,
> > e.g. vDPA (vhost data path acceleration), we want to put vfio group
> > to a separate container and program IOMMU via this container.
> >
> > This patch extends the vfio_config structure to contain per-container
> > user_mem_maps and defines an array of vfio_config. The next patch will
> > base on this to add container API.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Junjie Chen
> > Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang
> > Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin
> > Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit
> > ---
> > config/common_base | 1 +
> > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 407 ++---
>
> > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.h | 19 +-
> > 3 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/config/common_base b/config/common_base
> > index c4236fd1f..4a76d2f14 100644
> > --- a/config/common_base
> > +++ b/config/common_base
> > @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ CONFIG_RTE_EAL_ALWAYS_PANIC_ON_ERROR=n
> > CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n
> > CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=n
> > CONFIG_RTE_MAX_VFIO_GROUPS=64
> > +CONFIG_RTE_MAX_VFIO_CONTAINERS=64
> > CONFIG_RTE_MALLOC_DEBUG=n
> > CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=n
> > CONFIG_RTE_USE_LIBBSD=n
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
> > index 589d7d478..46fba2d8d 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c
> > @@ -22,8 +22,46 @@
> >
> > #define VFIO_MEM_EVENT_CLB_NAME "vfio_mem_event_clb"
> >
> > +/*
> > + * we don't need to store device fd's anywhere since they can be obtained
> from
> > + * the group fd via an ioctl() call.
> > + */
> > +struct vfio_group {
> > + int group_no;
> > + int fd;
> > + int devices;
> > +};
>
> What is the purpose of moving this into .c file? Seems like an
> unnecessary change.
Yes, we can let vfio_group stay at .h, and move vfio_config into .c
>
> > +
> > +/* hot plug/unplug of VFIO groups may cause all DMA maps to be dropped.
> we can
> > + * recreate the mappings for DPDK segments, but we cannot do so for
> memory that
> > + * was registered by the user themselves, so we need to store the user
> mappings
> > + * somewhere, to recreate them later.
> > + */
> > +#define VFIO_MAX_USER_MEM_MAPS 256
> > +struct user_mem_map {
> > + uint64_t addr;
> > + uint64_t iova;
> > + uint64_t len;
> > +};
> > +
>
> <...>
>
> > +static struct vfio_config *
> > +get_vfio_cfg_by_group_no(int iommu_group_no)
> > +{
> > + struct vfio_config *vfio_cfg;
> > + int i, j;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < VFIO_MAX_CONTAINERS; i++) {
> > + vfio_cfg = &vfio_cfgs[i];
> > + for (j = 0; j < VFIO_MAX_GROUPS; j++) {
> > + if (vfio_cfg->vfio_groups[j].group_no ==
> > + iommu_group_no)
> > + return vfio_cfg;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + return default_vfio_cfg;
>
> Here and in other places: i'm not sure returning default vfio config if
> group not found is such a good idea. It would be better if calling code
> explicitly handled case of group not existing yet.
Agree. It would be explicit.
>
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct vfio_config *
> > +get_vfio_cfg_by_group_fd(int vfio_group_fd)
> > +{
> > + struct vfio_config *vfio_cfg;
> > + int i, j;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < VFIO_MAX_CONTAINERS; i++) {
> > + vfio_cfg = &vfio_cfgs[i];
> > + for (j = 0; j < VFIO_MAX_GROUPS; j++)
> > + if (vfio_cfg->vfio_groups[j].fd == vfio_group_fd)
> > + return vfio_cfg;
> > + }
> >
>
> <...>
>
> > - for (i = 0; i < VFIO_MAX_GROUPS; i++) {
> > - vfio_cfg.vfio_groups[i].fd = -1;
> > - vfio_cfg.vfio_groups[i].group_no = -1;
> > - vfio_cfg.vfio_groups[i].devices = 0;
> > + rte_spinlock_recursive_t lock =
> RTE_SPINLOCK_RECURSIVE_INITIALIZER;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < VFIO_MAX_CONTAINERS; i++) {
> > + vfio_cfgs[i].vfio_container_fd = -1;
> > + vfio_cfgs[i].vfio_active_groups = 0;
> > + vfio_cfgs[i].vfio_iommu_type = NULL;
> > + vfio_cfgs[i].mem_maps.lock = lock;
>
> Nitpick - why copy, instead of straight up initializing with
> RTE_SPINLOCK_RECURSIVE_INITIALIZER?
I tried but compiler doesn't allow this assignment.
RTE_SPINLOCK_RECURSIVE_INITIALIZER could only be used for initialization.
Thanks for the comme
