[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 00/17] Add vhost-user-gpu support

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 02:35:45 UTC 2018



On 08/14/2018 07:25 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> ping
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 3:28 PM <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com> wrote:

Quite a bit has changed w/r/t qemu_capabilities.{c,h}.  Can you please
resync with the top of the tree and repost. Hopefully Pavel or Michal
will be able to take a look at the repost as well since they have more
recent NUMA and Hugepage experiences and that's where this series
starts...  Also I understand why things are combined, but the first 3
patches don't seem to be related to vhost-user-gpu, so they should be a
separate series. Although I do understand why they're included due to
qemu_capabilities conflicts for one series or the other.

Since, all I was able to "easily" git am was patch 1, I'll provide a
couple of comments there...

John

>>
>> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series of patches add support for running a virtio GPU in a
>> seperate process, using vhost-user.
>>
>> The QEMU series "[PATCH v4 00/29] vhost-user for input & GPU" is still
>> under review, and will hopefully land in 3.1. There are several
>> benefits of running the GPU process in an external process, since Mesa
>> is rather heavy on the qemu main loop, and may block for a while or
>> crash. I observe x5 performance improvements with Unigine Heaven 4
>> benchmark.
>>
>> The external GPU process is started with one end of the vhost-user
>> socket pair, the other end is given to a QEMU chardev. It is also
>> added to the emulator cgroup to restrict its CPU usage.
>>
>> vhost-user requires shared VM memory. A few preliminary patches ease
>> and improve shared memory setup, when no explicit domain NUMA
>> configuration is given. Also, if there is no need for file-backed
>> memory, teach libvirt to make use of memfd memory backend, which has
>> better security guarantees and is easier to setup.
>>
>> Review welcome!
>>
>> Marc-André Lureau (17):
>>   qemu: setup shared memory without explicit numa configuration
>>   qemu: add memory-backend-memfd capability check
>>   qemu: use memory-backend-memfd if possible
>>   qemu: add vhost-user-gpu capabilities
>>   domain: add "vhost-user" video type
>>   qemu: fill the vhost-user video type capability
>>   qemu: check that qemu is vhost-user-vga capable
>>   qemu: vhost-user is valid as non-primary video device
>>   qemu: validate vhost-user video model
>>   qemu: add qemuSecurityStartVhostUserGPU helper
>>   qemu: add vhost-user-gpu helper unit
>>   qemu: restrict 'virgl=' option to 'virtio' video type
>>   qemu: set default address type on vhost-user video model
>>   qemu: start/stop the vhost-user-gpu external device
>>   qemu: build vhost-user-backend for vhost-user-gpu
>>   qemu: build vhost-user-gpu video device arguments
>>   tests: add vhost-user-gpu xml2argv tests
>>
>>  docs/formatdomain.html.in                     |   5 +-
>>  docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                 |   1 +
>>  src/conf/device_conf.h                        |   1 +
>>  src/conf/domain_conf.c                        |   4 +-
>>  src/conf/domain_conf.h                        |   1 +
>>  src/qemu/Makefile.inc.am                      |   2 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                  |  10 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                  |   5 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                       | 191 ++++++++---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c                        |   8 +-
>>  src/qemu/qemu_domain_address.c                |   4 +-
>>  src/qemu/qemu_extdevice.c                     |  47 ++-
>>  src/qemu/qemu_process.c                       |   6 +-
>>  src/qemu/qemu_security.c                      |  48 +++
>>  src/qemu/qemu_security.h                      |   6 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_vhost_user_gpu.c                | 318 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  src/qemu/qemu_vhost_user_gpu.h                |  48 +++
>>  tests/domaincapsschemadata/full.xml           |   1 +
>>  .../caps_2.12.0.aarch64.xml                   |   1 +
>>  .../caps_2.12.0.ppc64.xml                     |   1 +
>>  .../caps_2.12.0.s390x.xml                     |   1 +
>>  .../caps_2.12.0.x86_64.xml                    |   1 +
>>  .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_3.0.0.ppc64.xml |   1 +
>>  .../caps_3.0.0.x86_64.xml                     |   1 +
>>  .../fd-memory-no-numa-topology.args           |   4 +
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memfd.args             |  28 ++
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memfd.xml              |  32 ++
>>  .../vhost-user-gpu-secondary.args             |  34 ++
>>  .../vhost-user-gpu-secondary.xml              |  38 +++
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-vga.args    |  31 ++
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-vga.xml     |  35 ++
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                      |  14 +
>>  32 files changed, 877 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 src/qemu/qemu_vhost_user_gpu.c
>>  create mode 100644 src/qemu/qemu_vhost_user_gpu.h
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memfd.args
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/memfd.xml
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-gpu-secondary.args
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-gpu-secondary.xml
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-vga.args
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/vhost-user-vga.xml
>>
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