[PATCH V8 0/6] mdev based hardware virtio offloading support

[Jason Wang]

On 2019/11/6 上午1:58, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Nov 2019 17:32:34 +0800
> Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> There are hardwares that can do virtio datapath offloading while
>> having its own control path. This path tries to implement a mdev based
>> unified API to support using kernel virtio driver to drive those
>> devices. This is done by introducing a new mdev transport for virtio
>> (virtio_mdev) and register itself as a new kind of mdev driver. Then
>> it provides a unified way for kernel virtio driver to talk with mdev
>> device implementation.
>>
>> Though the series only contains kernel driver support, the goal is to
>> make the transport generic enough to support userspace drivers. This
>> means vhost-mdev[1] could be built on top as well by resuing the
>> transport.
>>
>> A sample driver is also implemented which simulate a virito-net
>> loopback ethernet device on top of vringh + workqueue. This could be
>> used as a reference implementation for real hardware driver.
>>
>> Also a real ICF VF driver was also posted here[2] which is a good
>> reference for vendors who is interested in their own virtio datapath
>> offloading product.
>>
>> Consider mdev framework only support VFIO device and driver right now,
>> this series also extend it to support other types. This is done
>> through introducing class id to the device and pairing it with
>> id_talbe claimed by the driver. On top, this seris also decouple
>> device specific parents ops out of the common ones.
>>
>> Pktgen test was done with virito-net + mvnet loop back device.
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/31/440
>> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/15/1226
>>
>> Changes from V7:
>> - drop {set|get}_mdev_features for virtio
>> - typo and comment style fixes
>
> Seems we're nearly there, all the remaining comments are relatively
> superficial, though I would appreciate a v9 addressing them as well as
> the checkpatch warnings:
>
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/68977/


Will do.

Btw, do you plan to merge vhost-mdev patch on top? Or you prefer it to 
go through Michael's vhost tree?

Thanks


>
> Consider this a last call for reviews or acks (or naks) from affected
> mdev vendor drivers, mdev-core sub-maintainers (Hi Kirti), virtio
> stakeholders, etc.  Thanks,
>
> Alex
>