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Re: [PATCH V5 00/22] IOREQ feature (+ virtio-mmio) on Arm



Hi Andrew,

On 28/01/2021 18:10, Andrew Cooper wrote:
On 28/01/2021 17:44, Julien Grall wrote:


On 28/01/2021 17:24, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Julien Grall wrote:
On 25/01/2021 19:08, Oleksandr Tyshchenko wrote:
   > Patch series [8] was rebased on recent "staging branch"
(5e31789 tools/ocaml/libs/xb: Do not crash after xenbus is
unmapped) and
tested on
Renesas Salvator-X board + H3 ES3.0 SoC (Arm64) with virtio-mmio disk
backend [9]
running in driver domain and unmodified Linux Guest running on
existing
virtio-blk driver (frontend). No issues were observed. Guest domain
'reboot/destroy'
use-cases work properly. Patch series was only build-tested on x86.

I have done basic testing with a Linux guest on x86 and I didn't
spot any
regression.

Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows VM in hand, so I can't confirm
if there
is no regression there. Can anyone give a try?

On a separate topic, Andrew expressed on IRC some concern to expose the
bufioreq interface to other arch than x86. I will let him explain
his view
here.

Given that IOREQ will be a tech preview on Arm (this implies the
interface is
not stable) on Arm, I think we can defer the discussion past the
freeze.

Yes, I agree that we can defer the discussion.


For now, I would suggest to check if a Device Model is trying to
create an
IOREQ server with bufioreq is enabled (see ioreq_server_create()).
This would
not alleviate Andrew's concern, however it would at allow us to
judge whether
the buffering concept is going to be used on Arm (I can see some use
for the
Virtio doorbell).

What do others think?

Difficult to say. We don't have any uses today but who knows in the
future.

I have some ideas, but Andrew so far objects on using the existing
bufioreq interface for good reasons. It is using guest_cmpxchg() which
is really expensive.

Worse.  Patch 5 needs to switch cmpxchg() to guest_cmpxchg() to avoid
reintroducing XSA-295, but doesn't.

The memory is only shared with the emulator (we don't allow the legacy interface on Arm). So why do you think it is re-introducing XSA-295?

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall



 


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