Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Selective queue enabling

[Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 10:59âAM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 10:47:12AM +0200, Eugenio Perez Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 10:23âAM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 07:35:58 +0200, Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 9:10âPM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:55:09PM +0200, Eugenio PÃrez wrote:
> > > > > > This series allows the driver to start the device (as set DRIVER_OK) with only
> > > > > > some queues enabled, and then enable another queues later.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is the current way to migrate net device state through control
> > > > > > virtqueue, in a software assisted framework with vDPA:
> > > > > > * First, only net CVQ is enabled at DRIVER_OK
> > > > > > * All the control commands (mac address, mq, etc) needed for the device
> > > > > > to behave the same as the source of migration are sent
> > > > > > * Finally all the dataplane queues are enabled.
> > > > >
> > > > > In my opinion, this is somewhat problematic. Specifically, currently
> > > > > devices tend to deduce how many queues are needed by looking
> > > > > at the state at DRIVER_OK time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Question: what is wrong with enabling queues initially and then
> > > > > doing a reset right after DRIVER_OK? You can even allocate
> > > > > memory for just one queue (zeroing it out).
> > > > >
> > > > > Granted this looks kind of ugly but side-steps this problem with
> > > > > no need for spec changes.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The problem is that the rx queues can start receiving, as the guest
> > > > already has buffers there.
> > >
> > > Can we reset the vq before filling buffers to it?
> > >
> >
> > They are passthrough from the guest so there is a window where the
> > device can process rx descriptors.
>
> Not if there are no descriptors there.
>

But the migration is driven by the hypervisor, and it cannot control
that. The guest will likely have rx descriptors available.

>
> > > > Apart from that, the back and forth
> > > > introduces latencies.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe a better angle is to start all the queues as if they're reset,
> > > > write 1 just to CVQ, configure the device, and then write 1 to all
> > > > dataplane vqs?
> > >
> > > write to what?
> > >
> >
> > Sorry I was unclear, I mean to enable the vqs writing 1 to queue_enable.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > > > Eugenio PÃrez (2):
> > > > > >   virtio: introduce selective queue enabling
> > > > > >   virtio: pci support virtqueue selective enabling
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  content.tex       | 15 +++++++++++++--
> > > > > >  transport-pci.tex |  4 ++++
> > > > > >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > 2.31.1
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
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