Hi,
Yes, the work is in progress. Now. I'm working with a proper solution for
the eBPF RSS helper.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:23 PM Nikolay Shirokovskiy <
nshirokovskiy(a)virtuozzo.com> wrote:
Hi, Andrew.
We in Virtuozzo are interested in this functionality too. Do you plan to
continue your work on it?
Nikolay
пн, 16 авг. 2021 г. в 15:00, Andrew Melnichenko <andrew(a)daynix.com>:
> Ping
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:17 AM Andrew Melnychenko <andrew(a)daynix.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This series of patches add RSS property support for virtio-net-pci.
>>
>> Virtio RSS effectively works with TAP devices, it requires additional
>> vectors for VirtioNet, queues for TAP device, and vCPU cores.
>> Example of device configuration:
>> ```
>> <interface type="network">
>> <mac address="52:54:00:c4:90:25"/>
>> <source network="default"/>
>> <model type="virtio"/>
>> <driver name="qemu" queues="9" rss="on"
rss_hash_report="off"/>
>> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01"
slot="0x00"
>> function="0x0"/>
>> </interface>
>> ```
>>
>> Capability "rss" enables RSS, "rss_hash_report" - enables
hashes in
>> vheader.
>> Qemu uses eBPF program as RSS driver.
>> For loading RSS eBPF program, the helper is used.
>> Path to the helper is provided by Qemu through "query-helper-paths"
qmp
>> command.
>> The helper "qemu-ebpf-rss-helper" is built with Qemu and may differ
from
>> build to build.
>> So it's required that the Qemu should provide a proper helper path.
>> Libvirt would call the helper and receive the program and map fd through
>> unix socket.
>> Fds would be passed to Qemu in "ebpf_rss_fds" property by passing to
>> child process or unix socket.
>> If libvirt would fail at helper call or Qemu didn't provide the path,
>> the Qemu would be launched without "ebpf_rss_fds" property.
>> Without "ebpf_rss_fds" property, Qemu would try to load eBPF program
by
>> itself - usually, it would require additional system permissions.
>> Qemu may use "in-qemu" RSS as a fallback option, which will not
require
>> system
>> permissions, but doesn't work with vhost TAP.
>>
>> Qemu patches:
>>
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-07/msg03535.html
>>
>> Andrew Melnychenko (10):
>> domain_conf: Added configs for RSS and Hash report.
>> qemu_capabilities: Added capabilites for qemu's "rss" and
"hash".
>> qemu_command: Added "rss" and "hash" properties.
>> virsocket: Added receive for multiple fds.
>> qemu_capabilities: Added capability for qemu's "ebpf_rss_fds".
>> qemu_capabilities: Added capability for ebpf helper path.
>> qemu_interface: Added ebpf helper call.
>> qemu_command: Added ebpf RSS helper call for NIC creation.
>> qemu_hotplug: Added helper call for hotplug NIC.
>> docs: Added descriptions for "rss" and "rss_hash_report"
>> configurations.
>>
>> docs/formatdomain.rst | 16 +++++++
>> src/conf/domain_conf.c | 31 +++++++++++++-
>> src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 +
>> src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 +
>> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 5 +++
>> src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++-
>> src/qemu/qemu_command.h | 2 +
>> src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 30 ++++++++++++-
>> src/qemu/qemu_interface.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> src/qemu/qemu_interface.h | 2 +
>> src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 9 ++++
>> src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 3 ++
>> src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 3 ++
>> src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 16 +++++++
>> src/util/virsocket.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> src/util/virsocket.h | 2 +
>> 18 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>>