Post-copy Live Migration for vHost supported since DPDK 18.11 and
QEMU 2.12. New global config option 'vhost-postcopy-support' added
to control this feature. Ex.:
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:vhost-postcopy-support=true
Changing this value requires restarting the daemon. It's safe to
enable this knob even if QEMU doesn't support post-copy LM.
Feature marked as experimental and disabled by default because it may
cause PMD thread hang on destination host on page fault for the time
of page downloading from the source.
Feature is not compatible with 'mlockall' and 'dequeue zero-copy'.
Support added only for vhost-user-client.
Signed-off-by: Liliia Butorina <l.butorina@partner.samsung.com>
Co-authored-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
This commit re-introduces the concept of shared mempools as the default
memory model for DPDK devices. Per port mempools are still available but
must be enabled explicitly by a user.
OVS previously used a shared mempool model for ports with the same MTU
and socket configuration. This was replaced by a per port mempool model
to address issues flagged by users such as:
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2016-September/042560.html
However the per port model potentially requires an increase in memory
resource requirements to support the same number of ports and configuration
as the shared port model.
This is considered a blocking factor for current deployments of OVS
when upgrading to future OVS releases as a user may have to redimension
memory for the same deployment configuration. This may not be possible for
users.
This commit resolves the issue by re-introducing shared mempools as
the default memory behaviour in OVS DPDK but also refactors the memory
configuration code to allow for per port mempools.
This patch adds a new global config option, per-port-memory, that
controls the enablement of per port mempools for DPDK devices.
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:per-port-memory=true
This value defaults to false; to enable per port memory support,
this field should be set to true when setting other global parameters
on init (such as "dpdk-socket-mem", for example). Changing the value at
runtime is not supported, and requires restarting the vswitch
daemon.
The mempool sweep functionality is also replaced with the
sweep functionality from OVS 2.9 found in commits
c77f692 (netdev-dpdk: Free mempool only when no in-use mbufs.)
a7fb0a4 (netdev-dpdk: Add mempool reuse/free debug.)
A new document to discuss the specifics of the memory models and example
memory requirement calculations is also added.
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tiago Lam <tiago.lam@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tiago Lam <tiago.lam@intel.com>
The normal way of retrieving the running DPDK status involves parsing
log files and issuing various incantations of ovs-vsctl and ovs-appctl
commands to determine whether the rte_eal_init successfully started.
This commit adds two new records to reflect the dpdk version, and
the dpdk initialization status.
To support this, the other_config:dpdk-init configuration block supports
the 'true' and 'try' keywords now, instead of just 'true'.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Show DPDK version if Open vSwitch is compiled with DPDK support.
Version can be retrieved with `ovs-vswitchd --version` or from OVS logs.
Small change in ovs-ctl to avoid breakage on output change.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
DPDK v17.11 introduces support for the vHost IOMMU feature.
This is a security feature, which restricts the vhost memory
that a virtio device may access.
This feature also enables the vhost REPLY_ACK protocol, the
implementation of which is known to work in newer versions of
QEMU (i.e. v2.10.0), but is buggy in older versions (v2.7.0 -
v2.9.0, inclusive). As such, the feature is disabled by default
in (and should remain so), for the aforementioned older QEMU
verions. Starting with QEMU v2.9.1, vhost-iommu-support can
safely be enabled, even without having an IOMMU device, with
no performance penalty.
This patch adds a new global config option, vhost-iommu-support,
that controls enablement of the vhost IOMMU feature:
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:vhost-iommu-support=true
This value defaults to false; to enable IOMMU support, this field
should be set to true when setting other global parameters on init
(such as "dpdk-socket-mem", for example). Changing the value at
runtime is not supported, and requires restarting the vswitch daemon.
Signed-off-by: Mark Kavanagh <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
With this commit, we allow the user to set other_config:dpdk-init=true
after the process is started. This makes it easier to start Open
vSwitch with DPDK using standard init scripts without restarting the
service.
This is still far from ideal, because initializing DPDK might still
abort the process (e.g. if there not enough memory), so the user must
check the status of the process after setting dpdk-init to true.
Nonetheless, I think this is an improvement, because it doesn't require
restarting the whole unit.
CC: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
There's a lot of code in netdev-dpdk which is not at all related to the
netdev interface, mostly the library initialization code.
This commit moves it to a new 'dpdk' module, to simplify 'netdev-dpdk'.
Also a new module 'dpdk-stub' is introduced to implement some functions
when DPDK is not available. This replaces the old 'netdev-nodpdk'
module.
Some redundant includes are removed or reorganized as a consequence.
No functional change.
CC: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
