Re: [PATCH 18/52] virtio-fs: Map cache using the values from the capabilities

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:24:31 +0100
> David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 13.12.18 13:15, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:  
> > >> On 13.12.18 11:00, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:  
> > >>> * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:  
> > >>>> On 13.12.18 10:13, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:  
> > >>>>> * David Hildenbrand (david@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:  
> > >>>>>> On 10.12.18 18:12, Vivek Goyal wrote:  
> > >>>>>>> Instead of assuming we had the fixed bar for the cache, use the
> > >>>>>>> value from the capabilities.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>>>>> ---
> > >>>>>>>  fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> > >>>>>>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > >>>>>>> index 60d496c16841..55bac1465536 100644
> > >>>>>>> --- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > >>>>>>> +++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > >>>>>>> @@ -14,11 +14,6 @@
> > >>>>>>>  #include <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> > >>>>>>>  #include "fuse_i.h"
> > >>>>>>>  
> > >>>>>>> -enum {
> > >>>>>>> -	/* PCI BAR number of the virtio-fs DAX window */
> > >>>>>>> -	VIRTIO_FS_WINDOW_BAR = 2,
> > >>>>>>> -};
> > >>>>>>> -
> > >>>>>>>  /* List of virtio-fs device instances and a lock for the list */
> > >>>>>>>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(virtio_fs_mutex);
> > >>>>>>>  static LIST_HEAD(virtio_fs_instances);
> > >>>>>>> @@ -518,7 +513,7 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > >>>>>>>  	struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
> > >>>>>>>  	struct pci_dev *pci_dev;
> > >>>>>>>  	phys_addr_t phys_addr;
> > >>>>>>> -	size_t len;
> > >>>>>>> +	size_t bar_len;
> > >>>>>>>  	int ret;
> > >>>>>>>  	u8 have_cache, cache_bar;
> > >>>>>>>  	u64 cache_offset, cache_len;
> > >>>>>>> @@ -551,17 +546,13 @@ static int virtio_fs_setup_dax(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > >>>>>>>          }
> > >>>>>>>  
> > >>>>>>>  	/* TODO handle case where device doesn't expose BAR? */  
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> For virtio-pmem we decided to not go via BARs as this would effectively
> > >>>>>> make it only usable for virtio-pci implementers. Instead, we are going
> > >>>>>> to export the applicable physical device region directly (e.g.
> > >>>>>> phys_start, phys_size in virtio config), so it is decoupled from PCI
> > >>>>>> details. Doing the same for virtio-fs would allow e.g. also virtio-ccw
> > >>>>>> to make eventually use of this.  
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> That makes it a very odd looking PCI device;  I can see that with
> > >>>>> virtio-pmem it makes some sense, given that it's job is to expose
> > >>>>> arbitrary chunks of memory.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Dave  
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Well, the fact that your are
> > >>>>
> > >>>> - including <uapi/linux/virtio_pci.h>
> > >>>> - adding pci related code
> > >>>>
> > >>>> in/to fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > >>>>
> > >>>> tells me that these properties might be better communicated on the
> > >>>> virtio layer, not on the PCI layer.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Or do you really want to glue virtio-fs to virtio-pci for all eternity?  
> > >>>
> > >>> No, these need cleaning up; and the split within the bar
> > >>> is probably going to change to be communicated via virtio layer
> > >>> rather than pci capabilities.  However, I don't want to make our PCI
> > >>> device look odd, just to make portability to non-PCI devices - so it's
> > >>> right to make the split appropriately, but still to use PCI bars
> > >>> for what they were designed for.
> > >>>
> > >>> Dave  
> > >>
> > >> Let's discuss after the cleanup. In general I am not convinced this is
> > >> the right thing to do. Using virtio-pci for anything else than pure
> > >> transport smells like bad design to me (well, I am no virtio expert
> > >> after all ;) ). No matter what PCI bars were designed for. If we can't
> > >> get the same running with e.g. virtio-ccw or virtio-whatever, it is
> > >> broken by design (or an addon that is tightly glued to virtio-pci, if
> > >> that is the general idea).  
> > > 
> > > I'm sure we can find alternatives for virtio-*, so I wouldn't expect
> > > it to be glued to virtio-pci.
> > > 
> > > Dave  
> > 
> > As s390x does not have the concept of memory mapped io (RAM is RAM,
> > nothing else), this is not architectured. vitio-ccw can therefore not
> > define anything similar like that. However, in virtual environments we
> > can do whatever we want on top of the pure transport (e.g. on the virtio
> > layer).
> > 
> > Conny can correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> I don't think you're wrong, but I haven't read the code yet and I'm
> therefore not aware of the purpose of this BAR.
> 
> Generally, if there is a memory location shared between host and guest,
> we need a way to communicate its location, which will likely differ
> between transports. For ccw, I could imagine a new channel command
> dedicated to exchanging configuration information (similar to what
> exists today to communicate the locations of virtqueues), but I'd
> rather not go down this path.
> 
> Without reading the code/design further, can we use one of the
> following instead of a BAR:
> - a virtqueue;
> - something in config space?
> That would be implementable by any virtio transport.

The way I think about this is that we wish to extend the VIRTIO device
model with the concept of shared memory.  virtio-fs, virtio-gpu, and
virtio-vhost-user all have requirements for shared memory.

This seems like a transport-level issue to me.  PCI supports
memory-mapped I/O and that's the right place to do it.  If you try to
put it into config space or the virtqueue, you'll end up with something
that cannot be realized as a PCI device because it bypasses PCI bus
address translation.

If CCW needs a side-channel, that's fine.  But that side-channel is a
CCW-specific mechanism and probably doesn't apply to all other
transports.

Stefan

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