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Yongji Xie March 31, 2021, 8:05 a.m. UTC
This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
control path forwarding and data path offloading.

In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
those control messages.

In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.

In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.

The details and our user case is shown below:

------------------------    -------------------------   ----------------------------------------------
|            Container |    |              QEMU(VM) |   |                               VDUSE daemon |
|       ---------      |    |  -------------------  |   | ------------------------- ---------------- |
|       |dev/vdx|      |    |  |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x|  |   | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
------------+-----------     -----------+------------   -------------+----------------------+---------
            |                           |                            |                      |
            |                           |                            |                      |
------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
|    | block device |           |  vhost device |            | vduse driver |          | TCP/IP |    |
|    -------+--------           --------+--------            -------+--------          -----+----    |
|           |                           |                           |                       |        |
| ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
| | virtio-blk driver |       |  vhost-vdpa driver |         | vdpa device |                |        |
| ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
|           |      virtio bus           |                           |                       |        |
|   --------+----+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
|                |                      |                           |                       |        |
|      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
|      | virtio-blk device |            |                           |                       |        |
|      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
|                |                      |                           |                       |        |
|     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
|     |  virtio-vdpa driver |           |                           |                       |        |
|     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
|                |                      |                           |    vdpa bus           |        |
|     -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------           |        |
|                                                                                        ---+---     |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
                                                                                         ---+---
                                                                                            |
                                                                                   ---------+---------
                                                                                   | Remote Storages |
                                                                                   -------------------

We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.

To test it with null-blk:

  $ qemu-storage-daemon \
      --chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait \
      --monitor chardev=charmonitor \
      --blockdev driver=host_device,cache.direct=on,aio=native,filename=/dev/nullb0,node-name=disk0 \
      --export type=vduse-blk,id=test,node-name=disk0,writable=on,name=vduse-null,num-queues=16,queue-size=128

The qemu-storage-daemon can be found at https://github.com/bytedance/qemu/tree/vduse

Future work:
  - Improve performance
  - Userspace library (find a way to reuse device emulation code in qemu/rust-vmm)

V5 to V6:
- Export receive_fd() instead of __receive_fd()
- Factor out the unmapping logic of pa and va separatedly
- Remove the logic of bounce page allocation in page fault handler
- Use PAGE_SIZE as IOVA allocation granule
- Add EPOLLOUT support
- Enable setting API version in userspace
- Fix some bugs

V4 to V5:
- Remove the patch for irq binding
- Use a single IOTLB for all types of mapping
- Factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map()
- Add some sample codes in document
- Use receice_fd_user() to pass file descriptor
- Fix some bugs

V3 to V4:
- Rebase to vhost.git
- Split some patches
- Add some documents
- Use ioctl to inject interrupt rather than eventfd
- Enable config interrupt support
- Support binding irq to the specified cpu
- Add two module parameter to limit bounce/iova size
- Create char device rather than anon inode per vduse
- Reuse vhost IOTLB for iova domain
- Rework the message mechnism in control path

V2 to V3:
- Rework the MMU-based IOMMU driver
- Use the iova domain as iova allocator instead of genpool
- Support transferring vma->vm_file in vhost-vdpa
- Add SVA support in vhost-vdpa
- Remove the patches on bounce pages reclaim

V1 to V2:
- Add vhost-vdpa support
- Add some documents
- Based on the vdpa management tool
- Introduce a workqueue for irq injection
- Replace interval tree with array map to store the iova_map

Xie Yongji (10):
  file: Export receive_fd() to modules
  eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal()
  vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb
  vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB
  vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map()
  vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap()
  vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping
  vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver
  vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
  Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE

 Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst              |    1 +
 Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst |    1 +
 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst              |  212 +++
 drivers/vdpa/Kconfig                               |   10 +
 drivers/vdpa/Makefile                              |    1 +
 drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c                    |    2 +-
 drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c                  |    2 +-
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c                                |    9 +-
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c                   |    8 +-
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile                    |    5 +
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c               |  521 ++++++++
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h               |   70 +
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c                 | 1362 ++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c                  |    2 +-
 drivers/vhost/iotlb.c                              |   20 +-
 drivers/vhost/vdpa.c                               |  154 ++-
 fs/eventfd.c                                       |    2 +-
 fs/file.c                                          |    6 +
 include/linux/eventfd.h                            |    5 +-
 include/linux/file.h                               |    7 +-
 include/linux/vdpa.h                               |   21 +-
 include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h                        |    3 +
 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h                         |  175 +++
 23 files changed, 2548 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst
 create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h

Comments

Michael S. Tsirkin April 14, 2021, 7:34 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:09PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
> vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
> control path forwarding and data path offloading.
> 
> In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
> mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
> to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
> those control messages.
> 
> In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
> daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
> depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.
> 
> In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
> bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
> buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
> VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.
> 
> The details and our user case is shown below:
> 
> ------------------------    -------------------------   ----------------------------------------------
> |            Container |    |              QEMU(VM) |   |                               VDUSE daemon |
> |       ---------      |    |  -------------------  |   | ------------------------- ---------------- |
> |       |dev/vdx|      |    |  |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x|  |   | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
> ------------+-----------     -----------+------------   -------------+----------------------+---------
>             |                           |                            |                      |
>             |                           |                            |                      |
> ------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
> |    | block device |           |  vhost device |            | vduse driver |          | TCP/IP |    |
> |    -------+--------           --------+--------            -------+--------          -----+----    |
> |           |                           |                           |                       |        |
> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> | | virtio-blk driver |       |  vhost-vdpa driver |         | vdpa device |                |        |
> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> |           |      virtio bus           |                           |                       |        |
> |   --------+----+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> |      | virtio-blk device |            |                           |                       |        |
> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |     |  virtio-vdpa driver |           |                           |                       |        |
> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> |                |                      |                           |    vdpa bus           |        |
> |     -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------           |        |
> |                                                                                        ---+---     |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
>                                                                                          ---+---
>                                                                                             |
>                                                                                    ---------+---------
>                                                                                    | Remote Storages |
>                                                                                    -------------------

This all looks quite similar to vhost-user-block except that one
does not need any kernel support at all.

So I am still scratching my head about its advantages over
vhost-user-block.


> We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
> our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
> VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.

Maybe the container part is the answer. How does that stack look?

> To test it with null-blk:
> 
>   $ qemu-storage-daemon \
>       --chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait \
>       --monitor chardev=charmonitor \
>       --blockdev driver=host_device,cache.direct=on,aio=native,filename=/dev/nullb0,node-name=disk0 \
>       --export type=vduse-blk,id=test,node-name=disk0,writable=on,name=vduse-null,num-queues=16,queue-size=128
> 
> The qemu-storage-daemon can be found at https://github.com/bytedance/qemu/tree/vduse
> 
> Future work:
>   - Improve performance
>   - Userspace library (find a way to reuse device emulation code in qemu/rust-vmm)
> 
> V5 to V6:
> - Export receive_fd() instead of __receive_fd()
> - Factor out the unmapping logic of pa and va separatedly
> - Remove the logic of bounce page allocation in page fault handler
> - Use PAGE_SIZE as IOVA allocation granule
> - Add EPOLLOUT support
> - Enable setting API version in userspace
> - Fix some bugs
> 
> V4 to V5:
> - Remove the patch for irq binding
> - Use a single IOTLB for all types of mapping
> - Factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map()
> - Add some sample codes in document
> - Use receice_fd_user() to pass file descriptor
> - Fix some bugs
> 
> V3 to V4:
> - Rebase to vhost.git
> - Split some patches
> - Add some documents
> - Use ioctl to inject interrupt rather than eventfd
> - Enable config interrupt support
> - Support binding irq to the specified cpu
> - Add two module parameter to limit bounce/iova size
> - Create char device rather than anon inode per vduse
> - Reuse vhost IOTLB for iova domain
> - Rework the message mechnism in control path
> 
> V2 to V3:
> - Rework the MMU-based IOMMU driver
> - Use the iova domain as iova allocator instead of genpool
> - Support transferring vma->vm_file in vhost-vdpa
> - Add SVA support in vhost-vdpa
> - Remove the patches on bounce pages reclaim
> 
> V1 to V2:
> - Add vhost-vdpa support
> - Add some documents
> - Based on the vdpa management tool
> - Introduce a workqueue for irq injection
> - Replace interval tree with array map to store the iova_map
> 
> Xie Yongji (10):
>   file: Export receive_fd() to modules
>   eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal()
>   vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb
>   vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB
>   vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map()
>   vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap()
>   vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping
>   vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver
>   vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
>   Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE
> 
>  Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst              |    1 +
>  Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst |    1 +
>  Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst              |  212 +++
>  drivers/vdpa/Kconfig                               |   10 +
>  drivers/vdpa/Makefile                              |    1 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c                    |    2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c                  |    2 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c                                |    9 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c                   |    8 +-
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile                    |    5 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c               |  521 ++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h               |   70 +
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c                 | 1362 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c                  |    2 +-
>  drivers/vhost/iotlb.c                              |   20 +-
>  drivers/vhost/vdpa.c                               |  154 ++-
>  fs/eventfd.c                                       |    2 +-
>  fs/file.c                                          |    6 +
>  include/linux/eventfd.h                            |    5 +-
>  include/linux/file.h                               |    7 +-
>  include/linux/vdpa.h                               |   21 +-
>  include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h                        |    3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vduse.h                         |  175 +++
>  23 files changed, 2548 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0
Jason Wang April 14, 2021, 7:49 a.m. UTC | #2
在 2021/4/14 下午3:34, Michael S. Tsirkin 写道:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:09PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
>> This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
>> vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
>> control path forwarding and data path offloading.
>>
>> In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
>> mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
>> to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
>> those control messages.
>>
>> In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
>> daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
>> depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.
>>
>> In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
>> bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
>> buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
>> VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.
>>
>> The details and our user case is shown below:
>>
>> ------------------------    -------------------------   ----------------------------------------------
>> |            Container |    |              QEMU(VM) |   |                               VDUSE daemon |
>> |       ---------      |    |  -------------------  |   | ------------------------- ---------------- |
>> |       |dev/vdx|      |    |  |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x|  |   | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
>> ------------+-----------     -----------+------------   -------------+----------------------+---------
>>              |                           |                            |                      |
>>              |                           |                            |                      |
>> ------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
>> |    | block device |           |  vhost device |            | vduse driver |          | TCP/IP |    |
>> |    -------+--------           --------+--------            -------+--------          -----+----    |
>> |           |                           |                           |                       |        |
>> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
>> | | virtio-blk driver |       |  vhost-vdpa driver |         | vdpa device |                |        |
>> | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
>> |           |      virtio bus           |                           |                       |        |
>> |   --------+----+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
>> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
>> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
>> |      | virtio-blk device |            |                           |                       |        |
>> |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
>> |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
>> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
>> |     |  virtio-vdpa driver |           |                           |                       |        |
>> |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
>> |                |                      |                           |    vdpa bus           |        |
>> |     -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------           |        |
>> |                                                                                        ---+---     |
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
>>                                                                                           ---+---
>>                                                                                              |
>>                                                                                     ---------+---------
>>                                                                                     | Remote Storages |
>>                                                                                     -------------------
> This all looks quite similar to vhost-user-block except that one
> does not need any kernel support at all.
>
> So I am still scratching my head about its advantages over
> vhost-user-block.
>
>
>> We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
>> our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
>> VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.
> Maybe the container part is the answer. How does that stack look?


Yong Ji may add more and I think this has been demonstrated in the above 
figure: the userspace vDPA device can provide a kenrel virito-blk device 
via virtio_vdpa driver.

Thanks


>
>> To test it with null-blk:
>>
>>    $ qemu-storage-daemon \
>>        --chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/tmp/qmp.sock,server,nowait \
>>        --monitor chardev=charmonitor \
>>        --blockdev driver=host_device,cache.direct=on,aio=native,filename=/dev/nullb0,node-name=disk0 \
>>        --export type=vduse-blk,id=test,node-name=disk0,writable=on,name=vduse-null,num-queues=16,queue-size=128
>>
>> The qemu-storage-daemon can be found at https://github.com/bytedance/qemu/tree/vduse
>>
>> Future work:
>>    - Improve performance
>>    - Userspace library (find a way to reuse device emulation code in qemu/rust-vmm)
>>
>> V5 to V6:
>> - Export receive_fd() instead of __receive_fd()
>> - Factor out the unmapping logic of pa and va separatedly
>> - Remove the logic of bounce page allocation in page fault handler
>> - Use PAGE_SIZE as IOVA allocation granule
>> - Add EPOLLOUT support
>> - Enable setting API version in userspace
>> - Fix some bugs
>>
>> V4 to V5:
>> - Remove the patch for irq binding
>> - Use a single IOTLB for all types of mapping
>> - Factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map()
>> - Add some sample codes in document
>> - Use receice_fd_user() to pass file descriptor
>> - Fix some bugs
>>
>> V3 to V4:
>> - Rebase to vhost.git
>> - Split some patches
>> - Add some documents
>> - Use ioctl to inject interrupt rather than eventfd
>> - Enable config interrupt support
>> - Support binding irq to the specified cpu
>> - Add two module parameter to limit bounce/iova size
>> - Create char device rather than anon inode per vduse
>> - Reuse vhost IOTLB for iova domain
>> - Rework the message mechnism in control path
>>
>> V2 to V3:
>> - Rework the MMU-based IOMMU driver
>> - Use the iova domain as iova allocator instead of genpool
>> - Support transferring vma->vm_file in vhost-vdpa
>> - Add SVA support in vhost-vdpa
>> - Remove the patches on bounce pages reclaim
>>
>> V1 to V2:
>> - Add vhost-vdpa support
>> - Add some documents
>> - Based on the vdpa management tool
>> - Introduce a workqueue for irq injection
>> - Replace interval tree with array map to store the iova_map
>>
>> Xie Yongji (10):
>>    file: Export receive_fd() to modules
>>    eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal()
>>    vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb
>>    vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB
>>    vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map()
>>    vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap()
>>    vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping
>>    vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver
>>    vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
>>    Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE
>>
>>   Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst              |    1 +
>>   Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst |    1 +
>>   Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst              |  212 +++
>>   drivers/vdpa/Kconfig                               |   10 +
>>   drivers/vdpa/Makefile                              |    1 +
>>   drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c                    |    2 +-
>>   drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c                  |    2 +-
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c                                |    9 +-
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c                   |    8 +-
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile                    |    5 +
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c               |  521 ++++++++
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h               |   70 +
>>   drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c                 | 1362 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/vdpa/virtio_pci/vp_vdpa.c                  |    2 +-
>>   drivers/vhost/iotlb.c                              |   20 +-
>>   drivers/vhost/vdpa.c                               |  154 ++-
>>   fs/eventfd.c                                       |    2 +-
>>   fs/file.c                                          |    6 +
>>   include/linux/eventfd.h                            |    5 +-
>>   include/linux/file.h                               |    7 +-
>>   include/linux/vdpa.h                               |   21 +-
>>   include/linux/vhost_iotlb.h                        |    3 +
>>   include/uapi/linux/vduse.h                         |  175 +++
>>   23 files changed, 2548 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.c
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/iova_domain.h
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
>>   create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vduse.h
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.11.0
Yongji Xie April 14, 2021, 7:54 a.m. UTC | #3
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:35 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:09PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > This series introduces a framework, which can be used to implement
> > vDPA Devices in a userspace program. The work consist of two parts:
> > control path forwarding and data path offloading.
> >
> > In the control path, the VDUSE driver will make use of message
> > mechnism to forward the config operation from vdpa bus driver
> > to userspace. Userspace can use read()/write() to receive/reply
> > those control messages.
> >
> > In the data path, the core is mapping dma buffer into VDUSE
> > daemon's address space, which can be implemented in different ways
> > depending on the vdpa bus to which the vDPA device is attached.
> >
> > In virtio-vdpa case, we implements a MMU-based on-chip IOMMU driver with
> > bounce-buffering mechanism to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the dma
> > buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the
> > VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.
> >
> > The details and our user case is shown below:
> >
> > ------------------------    -------------------------   ----------------------------------------------
> > |            Container |    |              QEMU(VM) |   |                               VDUSE daemon |
> > |       ---------      |    |  -------------------  |   | ------------------------- ---------------- |
> > |       |dev/vdx|      |    |  |/dev/vhost-vdpa-x|  |   | | vDPA device emulation | | block driver | |
> > ------------+-----------     -----------+------------   -------------+----------------------+---------
> >             |                           |                            |                      |
> >             |                           |                            |                      |
> > ------------+---------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------+---------
> > |    | block device |           |  vhost device |            | vduse driver |          | TCP/IP |    |
> > |    -------+--------           --------+--------            -------+--------          -----+----    |
> > |           |                           |                           |                       |        |
> > | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> > | | virtio-blk driver |       |  vhost-vdpa driver |         | vdpa device |                |        |
> > | ----------+----------       ----------+-----------         -------+-------                |        |
> > |           |      virtio bus           |                           |                       |        |
> > |   --------+----+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> > |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> > |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> > |      | virtio-blk device |            |                           |                       |        |
> > |      ----------+----------            |                           |                       |        |
> > |                |                      |                           |                       |        |
> > |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> > |     |  virtio-vdpa driver |           |                           |                       |        |
> > |     -----------+-----------           |                           |                       |        |
> > |                |                      |                           |    vdpa bus           |        |
> > |     -----------+----------------------+---------------------------+------------           |        |
> > |                                                                                        ---+---     |
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| NIC |------
> >                                                                                          ---+---
> >                                                                                             |
> >                                                                                    ---------+---------
> >                                                                                    | Remote Storages |
> >                                                                                    -------------------
>
> This all looks quite similar to vhost-user-block except that one
> does not need any kernel support at all.
>
> So I am still scratching my head about its advantages over
> vhost-user-block.
>

It plays the same role as vhost-user-block in VM user cases.

>
> > We make use of it to implement a block device connecting to
> > our distributed storage, which can be used both in containers and
> > VMs. Thus, we can have an unified technology stack in this two cases.
>
> Maybe the container part is the answer. How does that stack look?
>

Yes, it enables containers to reuse virtio software stack. We can have
one daemon that provides service to both containers and virtual
machines.

Thanks,
Yongji