This commit unifies the custom linux kernel build in x86, Arm, and
performance metrics to the same function. Therefore, when bumping
the kernel version, we can make sure we only need to make the change
in one place.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
With the addition of the amx feature, add a new build workflow to
enable the feature and a clippy quality check.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
AMX is an x86 extension adding hardware units for matrix
operations (int and float dot products). The goal of the extension is
to provide performance enhancements for these common operations.
On Linux, AMX requires requesting the permission from the kernel prior
to use. Guests wanting to make use of the feature need to have the
request made prior to starting the vm.
This change then adds the first --cpus features option amx that when
passed will enable AMX usage for guests (needs a 5.17+ kernel) or
exits with failure.
The activation is done in the CpuManager of the VMM thread as it
allows migration and snapshot/restore to work fairly painlessly for
AMX enabled workloads.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
Now that we rely on vhost v0.4.0, which contains the fix for
get_iova_range(), we don't need the workaround anymore, and we can
actually call into the dedicated function.
Fixes#3861
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Rely on newly released versions of the vhost and vhost-user-backend
crates from rust-vmm.
The new vhost version includes the fixes needed for vDPA.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
This commit makes sure that the custom linux kernel is always
rebuilt when running the performance metrics tests, and therefore
changes to the kernel config file is always caught.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Explain the reason why using vDPA might be interesting and how to use it
with Cloud Hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Disable the DAX feature from the virtio-fs implementation as the feature
is still not stable. The feature is deprecated, meaning the 'dax'
parameter will be removed in about 2 releases cycles.
In the meantime, the parameter value is ignored and forced to be
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
The test is sporadically failing whenever we try to hotplug the vDPA
device we've just unplugged. This is causing the kernel to complain with
EBUSY because the device hasn't been released yet. This is happening
because the CI system is under very high load, therefore taking quite
some time to the host to update the state of this device.
The easy way to fix such issue is by increasing the sleep time between
the unplug and the replug.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
When running non-dynamic or with virtio-mem for hotplug the ACPI
functionality should not be included on the DSDT nor does the
MemoryManager need to be placed on the MMIO bus.
Fixes: #3883
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
This is now consistent with not supplying the _CRS for the device when
CpuManager is not dynamic.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
The file descriptor provided to fs_slave_map() and fs_slave_io() is
passed as a AsRawFd trait, meaning the caller owns it. For that reason,
there's no need for these functions to close the file descriptor as it
will be closed later on anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
As ethr is not stable on AArch64, disable it until we find other tool.
Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
fio test depends on hot-add disk which needs uefi on AArch64, that
will lead to lots of performance issues. So, it's better to use
cold-plug disk.
Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
On Arm64, the fio binary that comes from ubuntu distribution cannot
support io_uring, which is a required engine for the block
performance tests in performance metrics. Therefore this commit
build the fio from a relatively new version, and replace the native
ubuntu fio with the newly build one.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
To emulate debug I/O port on arm64, we need trap from guest to VMM.
Generally, there are 3 ways to go:
1) execute a privilege intruction like "wfi";
2) access a system register;
3) access device MMIO region;
However, 1) and 2) often handled in kvm, thus 3) it's the choice.
There maybe lots of repeated work and enlarge the size of clh to develop
a new device, so it's better to reuse the current device. Luckily, I
find that pl011 is the eariest device initialized in kernel and, there
is reserved region in it which we can reuse for emulating debug I/O.
Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Rather than just printing a message return an error back through the API
if the user attempts to hotplug a device that supports being behind an
IOMMU where that device isn't placed on an IOMMU segment.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Ensure devices that are specified to be on a PCI segment that is behind
the IOMMU are IOMMU enabled if possible or error out for those devices
that do not support it.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Previously it was not possible to enable vIOMMU for a virtio device.
However with the ability to place an entire PCI segment behind the
IOMMU the IOMMU mapping needs to be setup for the virtio device if it is
behind the IOMMU.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
This can already be calculated by the summing the tables reported by the
Linux kernel but this is more convenient.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Changes in commit "scripts: aarch64: Reduce source code build in CI"
for the Linux kernel will lead to the kernel cannot be rebuilt if
the config file is changed. Therefore should be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
As Linux kernel, edk2, virtiofd, SPDK are all build from source, we
need to find a way to reduce the number of source code build.
To address this issue, this commit adds a stage that touching a
".built" file to each repo of the source code after a successfully
build. By checking if the ".built" file exists, we can determine
if there is already an old build. Since the source code repo will
be removed and cloned again when we bump the repo hash, the CI will
rebuild the repo.
Signed-off-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Whenever a vfio-user device is dropped, the communication between the
VMM and the backend should be shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Separate the destruction and cleanup of original VM and the creation of
the new one. In particular have a clear hand off point for resources
(e.g. reset EventFd) used by the new VM from the original. In the
situation where vm.shutdown() generates an error this also avoids the
Vmm reference to the Vm (self.vm) from being maintained.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Adding two new integration tests for vDPA, relying on both block and net
simulators from the host kernel.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Based on the newly added Vdpa device along with the new vdpa parameter,
this patch enables the support for vDPA devices.
It's important to note this the only virtio device for which we provide
an ExternalDmaMapping instance. This will allow for the right DMA ranges
to be mapped/unmapped.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Introduce a new --vdpa parameter associated with a VdpaConfig for the
future creation of a Vdpa device.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
vDPA is a kernel framework introduced fairly recently in order to handle
devices complying with virtio specification on their datapath, while the
control path is vendor specific. For the datapath, that means the
virtqueues are handled through DMA directly between the hardware and the
guest, while the control path goes through the vDPA framework,
eventually exposed through a vhost-vdpa device.
vDPA, like VFIO, aims at achieving baremetal performance for devices
that are passed into a VM. But unlike VFIO, it provides a simpler/better
framework for achieving migration. Because the DMA accesses between the
device and the guest are going through virtio queues, migration can be
achieved way more easily, and doesn't require each device driver to
implement the migration support. In the VFIO case, each vendor is
expected to provide an implementation of the VFIO migration framework,
which makes things harder as it must be done for each and every device.
So to summarize the point is to support migration for hardware devices
through which we can achieve baremetal performances.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Update the content of the documentation to clarify how the cache option
from virtiofsd has an impact on the host page cache, while the dax
option for the filesystem in the guest has an impact on the guest page
cache.
The document is also updated to not have lines exceeding 80 characters.
Fixes#3826
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
