Re: [RFC v3 8/8] vhost-vdpa: introduce vhost-vdpa net client

[Eric Blake]

On 5/29/20 9:06 AM, Cindy Lu wrote:
> From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
>
> This patch set introduces a new net client type: vhost-vdpa.
> vhost-vdpa net client will set up a vDPA device which is specified
> by a "vhostdev" parameter.
>
> Co-authored-by: Lingshan Zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
> ---

> +static int net_vhost_vdpa_init(NetClientState *peer, const char *device,
> +                               const char *name, const char *vhostdev,
> +                               bool has_fd, char *fd)
> +{

fd is usually an int, not a string.

> +    NetClientState *nc = NULL;
> +    VhostVDPAState *s;
> +    int vdpa_device_fd = -1;
> +    Error *err = NULL;
> +    int ret = 0;
> +    assert(name);
> +
> +    nc = qemu_new_net_client(&net_vhost_vdpa_info, peer, device, name);
> +    snprintf(nc->info_str, sizeof(nc->info_str), "vhost-vdpa");
> +    nc->queue_index = 0;
> +
> +    s = DO_UPCAST(VhostVDPAState, nc, nc);
> +
> +    if (has_fd) {
> +        vdpa_device_fd = monitor_fd_param(cur_mon, fd, &err);
> +    } else{
> +        vdpa_device_fd = open(vhostdev, O_RDWR);
> +    }

Oh, you're trying to use the old way for passing in fds.  The preferred 
way is to use qemu_open(), at which point you can pass in fds via the 
add-fd QMP command, and then pass the string "/dev/fdset/NNN" as 
vhostdev.  Then you don't need a special fd parameter here.

> +++ b/qapi/net.json
> @@ -428,6 +428,27 @@
>       '*vhostforce':    'bool',
>       '*queues':        'int' } }
>   
> +##
> +# @NetdevVhostVDPAOptions:
> +#
> +# Vhost-vdpa network backend
> +#
> +# @vhostdev: name of a vdpa dev path in sysfs
> +#            (default path:/dev/vhost-vdpa-$ID)
> +#
> +# @fd: file descriptor of an already opened vdpa device
> +#
> +# @queues: number of queues to be created for multiqueue vhost-vdpa
> +#          (default: 1)
> +#
> +# Since: 5.1
> +##
> +{ 'struct': 'NetdevVhostVDPAOptions',
> +  'data': {
> +    '*vhostdev':     'str',
> +    '*fd':           'str',
> +    '*queues':       'int' } }

Instead of having vhostdev and fd both be optional (but where the user 
has to specify exactly one of them), you should only have vhostdev be 
mandatory, and rely on the /dev/fdset/NNN string as a way to get 
vhostdev to point to a previously-passed fd.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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