[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] virtio 1.0 enabling for virtio pmd driver

Xie, Huawei huawei.xie at intel.com
Tue Jan 19 09:55:29 CET 2016


On 1/19/2016 4:10 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> v5: minor fixes:
>
>     - fix wrong type of arg "offset" of read/write_dev_config(): patch 2
>       is newly added for that.
>
>     - check "offset + length" overflow
>
> Almost all difference comes from virtio 1.0 are the PCI layout change:
> the major configuration structures are stored at bar space, and their
> location is stored at corresponding pci cap structure. Reading/parsing
> them is one of the major work of patch 8.
>
> To make handling virtio v1.0 and v0.95 co-exist well, this patch set
> introduces a virtio_pci_ops structure, to add another layer so that
> we could keep those vtpci_foo_bar "APIs". With that, we could do the
> minimum change to add virtio 1.0 support.
>
>
> Rough test guide
> ================
>
> Firstly, you need get a virtio 1.0 supported QEMU (say, v2.5), then add
> option "disable-modern=false" to qemu virtio-net-pci device to enable
> virtio 1.0 (which is disabled by default).
>
> And if you see something like following from 'lspci -v', it means virtio
> 1.0 is indeed enabled:
>
>     00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Red Hat, Inc Virtio network device
>     Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device 0001
>     Physical Slot: 4
>     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>     I/O ports at c040 [size=64]
>     Memory at febf1000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>     Memory at fe000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
>     Expansion ROM at feb80000 [disabled] [size=256K]
>     Capabilities: [98] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=6 Masked-
> ==> Capabilities: [84] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
> ==> Capabilities: [70] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
> ==> Capabilities: [60] Vendor Specific Information: Len=10 <?>
> ==> Capabilities: [50] Vendor Specific Information: Len=10 <?>
> ==> Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=10 <?>
>     Kernel driver in use: virtio-pci
>     Kernel modules: virtio_pci
>
> After that, there wasn't anything speical comparing to the old virtio
> 0.95 pmd driver.
>
>
>
> ---
> Yuanhan Liu (9):
>   virtio: don't set vring address again at queue startup
>   virtio: define offset as size_t type
>   virtio: introduce struct virtio_pci_ops
>   virtio: move left pci stuff to virtio_pci.c
>   viritio: switch to 64 bit features
>   virtio: retrieve hdr_size from hw->vtnet_hdr_size
>   eal: pci: export pci_[un]map_device
>   virtio: add 1.0 support
>   virtio: move VIRTIO_READ/WRITE_REG_X into virtio_pci.c
>
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_3.rst            |   3 +
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c              | 302 +--------
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.h              |   3 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c                 | 799 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.h                 | 124 +++-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c                |  21 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple.c         |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h                  |   4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal_pci.c             |   4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map   |   7 +
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c          |   4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h             |  18 -
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci.h         |  27 +
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c           |   4 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map |   7 +
>  15 files changed, 957 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie at intel.com>

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