There isn't any objections to using <disk type='vhostuser'/> for
vhost-user-blk, so maybe that's a good place to start.
Thanks,
Cole
On 10/15/19 7:34 AM, Li Feng wrote:
Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com> 于2019年10月15日周二 上午1:48写道:
>
> On 10/14/19 3:12 AM, Li Feng wrote:
>> Hi Cole & Michal,
>>
>> I'm sorry for my late response, I just end my journey today.
>> Thank your response, your suggestion is very helpful to me.
>>
>> I have added Michal in this mail, Michal helps me review my initial patchset.
>> (
https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/libvir/msg191339.html)
>>
>
> Whoops I missed that posting, I didn't realize you had sent patches!
>
>> All concern about this feature is the XML design.
>> My original XML design exposes more details of Qemu.
>>
>> <vhost-user-blk-pci type='unix'>
>> <source type='bind' path='/tmp/vhost-blk.sock'>
>> <reconnect enabled='yes' timeout='5' />
>> </source>
>> <queue num='4'/>
>> </vhost-user-blk-pci>
>>
>> As Cole's suggestion, the better design with all vhost-user-scsi/blk
>> features would like this:
>>
>> vhost-user-blk:
>>
>> <disk type='vhostuser' device='disk'>
>> <source type='unix' path='/path/to/vhost-user-blk.sock'
mode='client'>
>> <reconnect enabled='yes' timeout='5' />
>> </source>
>> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>> <queue num='4'/>
>> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
>> </disk>
>>
>> vhost-user-scsi:
>>
>> <disk type='vhostuser' device='disk'>
>> <source type='unix' path='/path/to/vhost-user-scsi.sock'
mode='client'>
>> <reconnect enabled='yes' timeout='5' />
>> </source>
>> <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
>> <queue num='4'/>
>> </disk>
>>
>
> I think my SCSI idea is wrong, sorry. vhost-user-scsi is for passing a
> scsi host adapter to the VM, correct? If so, then it's not really a
> <disk>, and so using the existing vhost-scsi support in <hostdev> is
> probably better. <hostdev> could possible be used for vhost-user-blk as well
>
> Can you provide some examples of full qemu command lines using
> vhost-user-blk and vhost-user-scsi? Just linking to examples else where
> is fine, but I'm wondering if there's more context
You could check the vhost-user-scsi/blk examples from SPDK pages:
https://spdk.io/doc/vhost.html
>
> Internally we already have an abstraction for vhost-scsi:
>
> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi_host'>
> <source protocol='vhost' wwpn='XXX'/>
> </hostdev>
>
>
> The obvious extension would be
>
> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='scsi_host'>
> <source protocol='vhostuser' type='unix'
> path='/path/to/vhost-user-scsi.sock' mode='client'/>
> </hostdev>
>
> Internally implementing this will be weird. The <source> parameters are
> only dictated by the hostdev type= field, but in this case they would be
> dictated by the <source protocol=> field, and we would want to reuse the
> internal chardev abstraction.
>
> vhost-user-blk could be implemented similarly, but with type='storage'
> which is the way we pass through block devices to LXC guests, but it
> isn't currently supported in the qemu driver.
>
> I dunno. Maybe Michal or danpb can provide guidance
>
@Michal, @danpb, could you give some guidance?
>
>> Conclusion:
>> 1. Add new type(vhostuser) for disk label;
>> 2. Add queue sub-label for disk to support multiqueue(<queue
>> num='4'/>) or reusing the driver label
>> (<driver name='vhostuser' queues='4'), which one is better?
>> Qemu support multiqueue like this:
>> -device vhost-user-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,chardev=spdk_vhost_scsi0,num_queues=4
>> -device vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk0,num-queues=4
>>
>
> num-queues is already supported by libvirt for both <disk> and <hostdev>
> with <driver queues=X/>, so whether we use <disk> or <hostdev> you
won't
> need to add any new XML here.
Got it.
>
>> Another question:
>> When qemu is connecting to a vhost-user-scsi controller[1], there may
>> exist multiple LUNs under one target,
>> then one disklabel(<disk/>) will represent multiple SCSI LUNs,
>> the 'dev' property(<target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>)
will be ignored, right?
>> In other words, for vhost-user-scsi disk, it more likes a controller,
>> maybe the controller label is suitable.
>>
>
> Yes you are right, and this was my understanding. But then its not
> really a <controller> in libvirt's sense because we can't attach
> emulated devices to it, so it's more a fit for the existing <hostdev>
> vhost-user support. Unfortunately it's not really a clean fit anywhere,
> there will have to be some kind of compromise. And I'm not sure if
> <disk> or <hostdev> is right for vhost-user-blk, but hopefully others
> have more clear opinions.
I'm also confused about it.
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks,
Feng Li
>
> Thanks,
> Cole
>
>> I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
>>
>> [1]:
https://spdk.io/doc/vhost.html
>>
>> Feng Li
>>
>> Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com> 于2019年10月10日周四 上午6:48写道:
>>>
>>> Sorry for the late reply, and thanks Jano for pointing out elsewhere
>>> that this didn't receive a response.
>>>
>>> On 8/12/19 5:56 AM, Li Feng wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>
>>>> And I want to add the vhost-user-scsi-pci/vhost-user-blk-pci support
>>>> for libvirt.
>>>>
>>>> The usage in qemu like this:
>>>>
>>>> Vhost-SCSI
>>>> -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/var/tmp/vhost.0
>>>> -device vhost-user-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,chardev=char0
>>>> Vhost-BLK
>>>> -chardev socket,id=char1,path=/var/tmp/vhost.1
>>>> -device vhost-user-blk-pci,id=blk0,chardev=char1
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed that matches what I see for the qemu commits too:
>>>
>>>
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=00343e4b54b
>>>
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f12c1ebddf7
>>>
>>>> What type should I add for libvirt.
>>>> Type1:
>>>> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='vhost-user'>
>>>> <source protocol='vhost-user-scsi'
path='/tmp/vhost-scsi.sock'></source>
>>>> <alias name="vhost-user-scsi-disk1"/>
>>>> </hostdev>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Type2:
>>>>
>>>> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
>>>> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'
cache='none' io='native'/>
>>>> <source protocol='vhost-user'
path='/tmp/vhost-scsi.sock'>
>>>> </source>
>>>> <target dev='sdb' bus='vhost-user-scsi'/>
>>>> <boot order='3'/>
>>>> <alias name='scsi0-0-0-1'/>
>>>> <address type='drive' controller='0'
bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>
>>>> </disk>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <disk type='network' device='disk'>
>>>> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'
cache='none' io='native'/>
>>>> <source protocol='vhost-user'
path='/tmp/vhost-blk.sock'>
>>>> </source>
>>>> <target dev='vda' bus='vhost-user-blk'/>
>>>> <boot order='1'/>
>>>> <alias name='virtio-disk0'/>
>>>> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000'
bus='0x00' slot='0x07'
>>>> function='0x0'/>
>>>> </disk>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think wiring this into <disk> makes more sense. <hostdev> is
really an
>>> abstraction for assigning a (typically) physical host device to the VM,
>>> so it handles things like hiding a PCI device from the host, and passing
>>> that exact device to the VM.
>>>
>>> In the vhost-user-scsi/blk case, the host device is just a special
>>> process running on the other side of a socket, and the device
>>> represented to the guest is a typical virtio device. So to me it makes
>>> more sense as a <disk> with a <source> that points at that
socket.
>>>
>>> target bus=virtio vs bus=scsi is already used to distinguish between
>>> virtio-blk and virtio-scsi, so I think we can keep that bit as is, with
>>> the <address type=drive|pci> to match. We just need to differentiate
>>> between plain virtio and vhost-user
>>>
>>> network devices already have vhostuser support:
>>>
>>> <interface type='vhostuser'>
>>> <source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost1.sock'
mode='server|client'/>
>>> <model type='virtio'/>
>>> </interface>
>>>
>>> Internally that <source> is a virDomainChrSourceDefPtr which is our
>>> internal representation of a chardev. So I think something akin to this
>>> is the way to go. It will likely require updating a LOT of places in the
>>> code that check disk type= field, probably most places that care about
>>> whether type=NETWORK or type=!NETWORK will need to be mirrored for the
>>> new type.
>>>
>>> <disk type='vhostuser' device='disk'>
>>> <source type='unix'
path='/path/to/vhost-user-blk.sock' mode='client'/>
>>> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>>> </disk>
>>>
>>> <disk type='vhostuser' device='disk'>
>>> <source type='unix'
path='/path/to/vhost-user-scsi.sock' mode='client'/>
>>> <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
>>> </disk>
>>>
>>> - Cole
>>
>
>
> - Cole