Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:34:16 -0400

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:09PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
> vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
> control path forwarding and data path offloading.
> 
> In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
> mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
> to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
> those control messages.
> 
> In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
> daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
> depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.
> 
> In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
> bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
> buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
> VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.
> 
> The details and our user case is shown below:
> 
> ------------------------    -------------------------   ----------------------------------------------
> |            Container |    |              QEMU(VM) |   |                               VDUSE daemon |
> |       ---------      |    |  -------------------  |   | ------------------------- ---------------- |
> |       |dev/vdx|      |    |  |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x|  |   | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
> ------------+-----------     -----------+------------   -------------+----------------------+---------
>             |                           |                            |                      |
>             |                           |                            |                      |
> ------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
> |    | block device |           |  vhost device |            | vduse driver |          | TCP/IP |    |
> |    -------+--------           --------+--------            -------+--------          -----+----    |
> |           |                           |                           |                       |        |
> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> | | virtio-blk driver |       |  vhost-vdpa driver |         | vdpa device |                |        |
> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> |           |      virtio bus           |                           |                       |        |
> |   --------+----+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> |      | virtio-blk device |            |                           |                       |        |
> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |     |  virtio-vdpa driver |           |                           |                       |        |
> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |    vdpa bus           |        |
> |     -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------           |        |
> |                                                                                        ---+---     |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
>                                                                                          ---+---
>                                                                                             |
>                                                                                    ---------+---------
>                                                                                    | Remote Storages |
>                                                                                    -------------------

This all looks quite similar to vhost-user-block except that one
does not need any kernel support at all.

So I am still scratching my head about its advantages over
vhost-user-block.

> We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
> our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
> VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.

Maybe the container part is the answer. How does that stack look?

> To test it with null-blk:
> 
>   $ qemu-storage-daemon \
>       --chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait \
>       --monitor chardev=charmonitor \
>       --blockdev driver=host_device,cache.direct=on,aio=native,filename=/dev/nullb0,node-name=disk0 \
>       --export type=vduse-blk,id=test,node-name=disk0,writable=on,name=vduse-null,num-queues=16,queue-size=128
> 
> The qemu-storage-daemon can be found at https://github.com/bytedance/qemu/tree/vduse
> 
> Future work:
>   - Improve performance
>   - Userspace library (find a way to reuse device emulation code in qemu/rust-vmm)
> 
> V5 to V6:
> - Export receive_fd() instead of __receive_fd()
> - Factor out the unmapping logic of pa and va separatedly
> - Remove the logic of bounce page allocation in page fault handler
> - Use PAGE_SIZE as IOVA allocation granule
> - Add EPOLLOUT support
> - Enable setting API version in userspace
> - Fix some bugs
> 
> V4 to V5:
> - Remove the patch for irq binding
> - Use a single IOTLB for all types of mapping
> - Factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map()
> - Add some sample codes in document
> - Use receice_fd_user() to pass file descriptor
> - Fix some bugs
> 
> V3 to V4:
> - Rebase to vhost.git
> - Split some patches
> - Add some documents
> - Use ioctl to inject interrupt rather than eventfd
> - Enable config interrupt support
> - Support binding irq to the specified cpu
> - Add two module parameter to limit bounce/iova size
> - Create char device rather than anon inode per vduse
> - Reuse vhost IOTLB for iova domain
> - Rework the message mechnism in control path
> 
> V2 to V3:
> - Rework the MMU-based IOMMU driver
> - Use the iova domain as iova allocator instead of genpool
> - Support transferring vma->vm_file in vhost-vdpa
> - Add SVA support in vhost-vdpa
> - Remove the patches on bounce pages reclaim
> 
> V1 to V2:
> - Add vhost-vdpa support
> - Add some documents
> - Based on the vdpa management tool
> - Introduce a workqueue for irq injection
> - Replace interval tree with array map to store the iova_map
> 
> Xie Yongji (10):
>   file: Export receive_fd() to modules
>   eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal()
>   vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb
>   vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB
>   vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map()
>   vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap()
>   vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping
>   vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver
>   vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
>   Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE
> 
>  Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst              |    1 +
>  Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst |    1 +
>  Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst              |  212 +++
>  drivers/vdpa/Kconfig                               |   10 +
>  drivers/vdpa/Makefile                              |    1 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c                    |    2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c                  |    2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c                                |    9 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c                   |    8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile                    |    5 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c               |  521 ++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h               |   70 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c                 | 1362 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c                  |    2 +-
>  drivers/vhost/iotlb.c                              |   20 +-
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c                               |  154 ++-
>  fs/eventfd.c                                       |    2 +-
>  fs/file.c                                          |    6 +
>  include/linux/eventfd.h                            |    5 +-
>  include/linux/file.h                               |    7 +-
>  include/linux/vdpa.h                               |   21 +-
>  include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h                        |    3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vduse.h                         |  175 +++
>  23 files changed, 2548 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0