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Re: [PATCH v11 5/5] docs: Add generic vhost-vdpa device documentation


From: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 5/5] docs: Add generic vhost-vdpa device documentation
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:20:56 +0800
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在 2022/12/20 14:15, Michael S. Tsirkin 写道:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 08:02:51AM +0800, Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure 
Service Product Dept.) wrote:


在 2022/12/20 5:37, Michael S. Tsirkin 写道:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:33:49AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:50 PM Longpeng(Mike) <longpeng2@huawei.com> wrote:

From: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com>

Signed-off-by: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com>
---
   .../devices/vhost-vdpa-generic-device.rst     | 68 +++++++++++++++++++
   1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)
   create mode 100644 docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-generic-device.rst

diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-generic-device.rst 
b/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-generic-device.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24c825ef1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-generic-device.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+
+=========================
+vhost-vDPA generic device
+=========================
+
+This document explains the usage of the vhost-vDPA generic device.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+vDPA(virtio data path acceleration) device is a device that uses a datapath
+which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor specific control
+path.
+
+QEMU provides two types of vhost-vDPA devices to enable the vDPA device, one
+is type sensitive which means QEMU needs to know the actual device type
+(e.g. net, blk, scsi) and another is called "vhost-vDPA generic device" which
+is type insensitive.
+
+The vhost-vDPA generic device builds on the vhost-vdpa subsystem and virtio
+subsystem. It is quite small, but it can support any type of virtio device.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+Linux 5.18+
+iproute2/vdpa 5.12.0+
+
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+1. Prepare the vhost-vDPA backends, here is an example using vdpa_sim_blk
+   device:
+
+::
+  host# modprobe vhost_vdpa
+  host# modprobe vdpa_sim_blk

Nit: it's probably better to add driver binding steps here.

+  host# vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0
+  (...you can see the vhost-vDPA device under /dev directory now...)

And then the vhost char dev name could be fetch via

ls /sys/bus/vdpa/device/blk0/vhost-vdpa*

With the above changes.

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Thanks


Sounds minor enough, I'll queue, pls fix with a patch on top.

OK, thanks. I'll send when I'm free.

Is this going to be in the next couple of weeks? then ok.

I think I can send out during this weekend.

We do want this addressed by let's say rc3.

+  host# ls -l /dev/vhost-vdpa-*
+  crw------- 1 root root 236, 0 Nov  2 00:49 /dev/vhost-vdpa-0
+
+Note:
+It needs some vendor-specific steps to provision the vDPA device if you're
+using real HW devices, such as loading the vendor-specific vDPA driver and
+binding the device to the driver.
+
+
+2. Start the virtual machine:
+
+Start QEMU with virtio-mmio bus:
+
+::
+  host# qemu-system                                                  \
+      -M microvm -m 512 -smp 2 -kernel ... -initrd ...               \
+      -device vhost-vdpa-device,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-0           \
+      ...
+
+
+Start QEMU with virtio-pci bus:
+
+::
+  host# qemu-system                                                  \
+      -M pc -m 512 -smp 2                                            \
+      -device vhost-vdpa-device-pci,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-0       \
+      ...
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2.23.0


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