net/virtio: skip device probe in vDPA mode

If we want a virtio device to work in vDPA (vhost data path acceleration)
mode, we could add a "vdpa=1" devarg for this device to specify the mode.

This patch let virtio pmd skip device probe when detecting this parameter.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
index ca09cd2..8922f9c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst
@@ -318,3 +318,16 @@ Here we use l3fwd-power as an example to show how to get started.
 
         $ l3fwd-power -l 0-1 -- -p 1 -P --config="(0,0,1)" \
                                                --no-numa --parse-ptype
+
+
+Virtio PMD arguments
+--------------------
+
+The user can specify below argument in devargs.
+
+#.  ``vdpa``:
+
+    A virtio device could also be driven by vDPA (vhost data path acceleration)
+    driver, and works as a HW vhost backend. This argument is used to specify
+    a virtio device needs to work in vDPA mode.
+    (Default: 0 (disabled))

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
index 41042cb..5833dad 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <rte_eal.h>
 #include <rte_dev.h>
 #include <rte_cycles.h>
+#include <rte_kvargs.h>
 
 #include "virtio_ethdev.h"
 #include "virtio_pci.h"
@@ -1713,9 +1714,51 @@ eth_virtio_dev_uninit(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int vdpa_check_handler(__rte_unused const char *key,
+               const char *value, __rte_unused void *opaque)
+{
+       if (strcmp(value, "1"))
+               return -1;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+vdpa_mode_selected(struct rte_devargs *devargs)
+{
+       struct rte_kvargs *kvlist;
+       const char *key = "vdpa";
+       int ret = 0;
+
+       if (devargs == NULL)
+               return 0;
+
+       kvlist = rte_kvargs_parse(devargs->args, NULL);
+       if (kvlist == NULL)
+               return 0;
+
+       if (!rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, key))
+               goto exit;
+
+       /* vdpa mode selected when there's a key-value pair: vdpa=1 */
+       if (rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, key,
+                               vdpa_check_handler, NULL) < 0) {
+               goto exit;
+       }
+       ret = 1;
+
+exit:
+       rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
+       return ret;
+}
+
 static int eth_virtio_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv __rte_unused,
        struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev)
 {
+       /* virtio pmd skips probe if device needs to work in vdpa mode */
+       if (vdpa_mode_selected(pci_dev->device.devargs))
+               return 1;
+
        return rte_eth_dev_pci_generic_probe(pci_dev, sizeof(struct virtio_hw),
                eth_virtio_dev_init);
 }