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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] vdpa_sim: implement .reset_map support
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Hi Stefano,

On 10/17/2023 6:44 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 10:29:26AM -0700, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
>> Hi Stefano,
>>
>> On 10/13/2023 2:22 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>> Hi Si-Wei,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:23:40AM -0700, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
>>>> RFC only. Not tested on vdpa-sim-blk with user virtual address.
>>>
>>> I can test it, but what I should stress?
>> Great, thank you! As you see, my patch moved vhost_iotlb_reset out of
>> vdpasim_reset for the sake of decoupling mapping from vdpa device
>> reset. For hardware devices this decoupling makes sense as platform
>> IOMMU already did it. But I'm not sure if there's something in the
>> software device (esp. with vdpa-blk and the userspace library stack)
>> that may have to rely on the current .reset behavior that clears the
>> vhost_iotlb. So perhaps you can try to exercise every possible case
>> involving blk device reset, and see if anything (related to mapping)
>> breaks?
>
> I just tried these steps without using a VM and the host kernel hangs
> after adding the device:
>
> [root@f38-vm-build ~]# modprobe virtio-vdpa
> [root@f38-vm-build ~]# modprobe vdpa-sim-blk
> [root@f38-vm-build ~]# vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0
> [   35.284575][  T563] virtio_blk virtio6: 1/0/0 default/read/poll queues
> [   35.286372][  T563] virtio_blk virtio6: [vdb] 262144 512-byte
> logical blocks (134 MB/128 MiB)
> [   35.295271][  T564] vringh:
>
> Reverting this patch (so building "vdpa/mlx5: implement .reset_map
> driver op") worked here.
I'm sorry, the previous RFC patch was incomplete - please see the v2 I
just posted. Tested both use_va and !use_va on vdpa-sim-blk, and raw
disk copy to the vdpa block simulator using dd seems fine. Just let me
know how it goes on your side this time.

Thanks,
-Siwei

>
>>
>>>
>>>> Works fine with vdpa-sim-net which uses physical address to map.
>>>
>>> Can you share your tests? so I'll try to do the same with blk.
>> Basically everything involving virtio device reset in the guest,
>> e.g.  reboot the VM, remove/unbind then reprobe/bind the virtio-net
>> module/driver, then see if device I/O (which needs mapping properly)
>> is still flowing as expected. And then everything else that could
>> trigger QEMU's vhost_dev_start/stop paths ending up as passive
>> vhos-vdpa backend reset, for e.g. link status change,
>> suspend/hibernate, SVQ switch and live migration. I am not sure if
>> vdpa-blk supports live migration through SVQ or not, if not you don't
>> need to worry about.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This patch is based on top of [1].
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/1696928580-7520-1-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@oracle.com/
>>>
>>> The series does not apply well on master or vhost tree.
>>> Where should I apply it?
>> Sent the link through another email offline.
>
> Received thanks!
>
> Stefano
>

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