Re: [PATCH 1/2] vdpa/mlx5: Avoid unnecessary query virtqueue

From: Eli Cohen
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 02:03:17 EST


On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:15:29PM -0800, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 7:13 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2021/2/2 上午3:17, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:51 AM Si-Wei Liu <siwliu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 5:46 AM Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>> suspend_vq should only suspend the VQ on not save the current available
> > >>> index. This is done when a change of map occurs when the driver calls
> > >>> save_channel_info().
> > >> Hmmm, suspend_vq() is also called by teardown_vq(), the latter of
> > >> which doesn't save the available index as save_channel_info() doesn't
> > >> get called in that path at all. How does it handle the case that
> > >> aget_vq_state() is called from userspace (e.g. QEMU) while the
> > >> hardware VQ object was torn down, but userspace still wants to access
> > >> the queue index?
> > >>
> > >> Refer to https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1601583511-15138-1-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >>
> > >> vhost VQ 0 ring restore failed: -1: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
> > >> vhost VQ 1 ring restore failed: -1: Resource temporarily unavailable (11)
> > >>
> > >> QEMU will complain with the above warning while VM is being rebooted
> > >> or shut down.
> > >>
> > >> Looks to me either the kernel driver should cover this requirement, or
> > >> the userspace has to bear the burden in saving the index and not call
> > >> into kernel if VQ is destroyed.
> > > Actually, the userspace doesn't have the insights whether virt queue
> > > will be destroyed if just changing the device status via set_status().
> > > Looking at other vdpa driver in tree i.e. ifcvf it doesn't behave like
> > > so. Hence this still looks to me to be Mellanox specifics and
> > > mlx5_vdpa implementation detail that shouldn't expose to userspace.
> >
> >
> > So I think we can simply drop this patch?
>
> Yep, I think so. To be honest I don't know why it has anything to do
> with the memory hotplug issue.

No relation. That's why I put them in two different patches. Only the
second one is the fix as I stated in the cover letter.

Anyway, let's just take the second patch.

Michael, do you need me to send PATCH 2 again as a single patch or can
you just take it?


>
> -Siwei
>
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > >> -Siwei
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> ---
> > >>> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 8 --------
> > >>> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> > >>>
> > >>> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > >>> index 88dde3455bfd..549ded074ff3 100644
> > >>> --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > >>> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > >>> @@ -1148,8 +1148,6 @@ static int setup_vq(struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev, struct mlx5_vdpa_virtqueue *mvq)
> > >>>
> > >>> static void suspend_vq(struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev, struct mlx5_vdpa_virtqueue *mvq)
> > >>> {
> > >>> - struct mlx5_virtq_attr attr;
> > >>> -
> > >>> if (!mvq->initialized)
> > >>> return;
> > >>>
> > >>> @@ -1158,12 +1156,6 @@ static void suspend_vq(struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev, struct mlx5_vdpa_virtqueue *m
> > >>>
> > >>> if (modify_virtqueue(ndev, mvq, MLX5_VIRTIO_NET_Q_OBJECT_STATE_SUSPEND))
> > >>> mlx5_vdpa_warn(&ndev->mvdev, "modify to suspend failed\n");
> > >>> -
> > >>> - if (query_virtqueue(ndev, mvq, &attr)) {
> > >>> - mlx5_vdpa_warn(&ndev->mvdev, "failed to query virtqueue\n");
> > >>> - return;
> > >>> - }
> > >>> - mvq->avail_idx = attr.available_index;
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> static void suspend_vqs(struct mlx5_vdpa_net *ndev)
> > >>> --
> > >>> 2.29.2
> > >>>
> >