On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 2:01 PM Michael S. Tsirkin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:47:35AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:

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From: Zhu, Lingshan <redacted>
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On 7/27/2022 10:17 AM, Parav Pandit wrote:

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On 7/26/2022 11:56 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:

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From: Zhu, Lingshan <redacted>
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When the user space which invokes netlink commands, detects that

_MQ

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is not supported, hence it takes max_queue_pair = 1 by itself.
I think the kernel module have all necessary information and it is
the only one which have precise information of a device, so it
should answer precisely than let the user space guess. The kernel
module should be reliable than stay silent, leave the question to
the user space

tool.

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Kernel is reliable. It doesn’t expose a config space field if the
field doesn’t

exist regardless of field should have default or no default.
so when you know it is one queue pair, you should answer one, not try
to guess.

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User space should not guess either. User space gets to see if _MQ

present/not present. If _MQ present than get reliable data from kernel.

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If _MQ not present, it means this device has one VQ pair.

it is still a guess, right? And all user space tools implemented this
feature need to guess

No. it is not a guess.
It is explicitly checking the _MQ feature and deriving the value.
The code you proposed will be present in the user space.
It will be uniform for _MQ and 10 other features that are present now and

in the future.
MQ and other features like RSS are different. If there is no _RSS_XX, there
are no attributes like max_rss_key_size, and there is not a default value.
But for MQ, we know it has to be 1 wihtout _MQ.

"we" = user space.
To keep the consistency among all the config space fields.

Actually I looked and the code some more and I'm puzzled:


        struct virtio_net_config config = {};
        u64 features;
        u16 val_u16;

        vdpa_get_config_unlocked(vdev, 0, &config, sizeof(config));

        if (nla_put(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MACADDR, sizeof(config.mac),
                    config.mac))
                return -EMSGSIZE;


Mac returned even without VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC


        val_u16 = le16_to_cpu(config.status);
        if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_STATUS, val_u16))
                return -EMSGSIZE;


status returned even without VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS

        val_u16 = le16_to_cpu(config.mtu);
        if (nla_put_u16(msg, VDPA_ATTR_DEV_NET_CFG_MTU, val_u16))
                return -EMSGSIZE;


MTU returned even without VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU


What's going on here?

Probably too late to fix, but this should be fine as long as all
parents support STATUS/MTU/MAC.

I wonder if we can add a check in the core and fail the device
registration in this case.

Thanks

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