Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Virtio-net control queue handling
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:13:43PM +0000, Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
Is there any option in QEMU to offload virtio device control queue handling to backend instead of deciphering and passing to libvirt via QMP? if not, is there any interface in libvirt which passes on these message to application or i directly use QMP interface from QEMU?
I'm not sure I understand your question. It could be because of terminology: "virtio device control queue" == virtio-net control virtqueue? "backend" == vhost-user-net device backend? "message" == QMP event? I have CCed Jason Wang, QEMU network subsystem maintainer, and the libvirt mailing list. Stefan
Hi Stefan, Thanks for directing question to correct people, yes your understanding is correct. I want virtio-net control virtqueue to be handled by vhost-user-net device based backend for vdpa use case where control message would do some configuration on actual hw device. Or these changes should to be done in libvirt where QMP event are being handled as of now? Regards Nikhil -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:54 PM To: Nikhil Agarwal <nagarwal@xilinx.com> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; jasowang@redhat.com; libvir-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio-net control queue handling On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:13:43PM +0000, Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
Is there any option in QEMU to offload virtio device control queue handling to backend instead of deciphering and passing to libvirt via QMP? if not, is there any interface in libvirt which passes on these message to application or i directly use QMP interface from QEMU?
I'm not sure I understand your question. It could be because of terminology: "virtio device control queue" == virtio-net control virtqueue? "backend" == vhost-user-net device backend? "message" == QMP event? I have CCed Jason Wang, QEMU network subsystem maintainer, and the libvirt mailing list. Stefan
On 2019/2/28 上午1:39, Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
Hi Stefan,
Thanks for directing question to correct people, yes your understanding is correct.
I want virtio-net control virtqueue to be handled by vhost-user-net device based backend for vdpa use case where control message would do some configuration on actual hw device. Or these changes should to be done in libvirt where QMP event are being handled as of now?
Regards Nikhil
Cc Michael. Several methods for dealing with control virtqueue: 1) using backend specific method. For example, multiqueue control for TAP was done in this way, and we plan to support RSS in this way as well (through steering eBPF program). But this may not work for the privilleged operations. 2) inventing new vhost(user) protocol, convert the vq command to vhost(user) command and pass it to vhost(user) backend. 3) extend vhost protocol to deal with control vq like you propose here. 4) notify libvirt using QMP event, we've already supported this if rx filter is changed for virtio-net, and let management to deal with the changes. 5) implementing or linking vhost backend qemu, then there's no need to invent no IPCs For the case of vDPA, I'm not sure the use case for vDPA through vhost-user. Can you describe more about that? To me the best way is probably done through mdev and VFIO not userspace path. Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:54 PM To: Nikhil Agarwal <nagarwal@xilinx.com> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; jasowang@redhat.com; libvir-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio-net control queue handling
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:13:43PM +0000, Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
Is there any option in QEMU to offload virtio device control queue handling to backend instead of deciphering and passing to libvirt via QMP? if not, is there any interface in libvirt which passes on these message to application or i directly use QMP interface from QEMU? I'm not sure I understand your question. It could be because of terminology:
"virtio device control queue" == virtio-net control virtqueue?
"backend" == vhost-user-net device backend?
"message" == QMP event?
I have CCed Jason Wang, QEMU network subsystem maintainer, and the libvirt mailing list.
Stefan
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