25 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
12 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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This shows up when trying to bridge:
tap0: received packet with own address as source addressAs Max Krasnyansky points out, there's no reason to give the guest the
same mac address as the TUN device.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: Max Krasnyansky
29 Jul, 2008
12 commits
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lguest uses a Waker process to break it out of the kernel (ie.
actually running the guest) when file descriptor needs attention.Changing this from a process to a thread somewhat simplifies things:
it can directly access the fd_set of things to watch. More
importantly, it means that the Waker can see Guest memory correctly,
so /dev/vring file descriptors will work as anticipated (the
alternative is to actually mmap MAP_SHARED, but you can't do that with
/dev/zero).Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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With big packets, 128 entries is a little small.
Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before: 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252
After: 8.01099 seconds xmit 49200 recv 102263 timeout 26014 usec 2118Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Guest -> Host 1GB TCP:
Before 20.1974 seconds xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278
After 8.43625 seconds xmit 95640 recv 198266 timeout 49771 usec 1252Host -> Guest 1GB TCP:
Before: Seconds 9.98854 xmit 172166 recv 5344 timeout 172157 usec 251
After: Seconds 5.72803 xmit 244322 recv 9919 timeout 244302 usec 156Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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This warning can happen a lot under load, and it should be warnx not
warn anwyay.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Since the correct timeout value varies, use a heuristic which adjusts
the timeout depending on how many packets we've seen. This gives
slightly worse results, but doesn't need tweaking when GSO is
introduced.500 usec 19.1887 xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
Dynamic (278) 20.1974 xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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virtio_ring has the ability to suppress notifications. This prevents
a guest exit for every packet, but we need to set a timer on packet
receipt to re-check if there were any remaining packets.Here are the times for 1G TCP Guest->Host with different timeout
settings (it matters because the TCP window doesn't grow big enough to
fill the entire buffer):Timeout value Seconds Xmit/Recv/Timeout
None (before) 25.3784 xmit 7750233 recv 1
2500 usec 62.5119 xmit 207020 recv 2 timeout 207020
1000 usec 34.5379 xmit 207003 recv 2 timeout 207003
750 usec 29.2305 xmit 207002 recv 1 timeout 207002
500 usec 19.1887 xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
250 usec 20.0465 xmit 214128 recv 2 timeout 214110
100 usec 19.2583 xmit 561621 recv 1 timeout 560153(Note that these values are sensitive to the GSO patches which come
later, and probably other traffic-related variables, so take with a
large grain of salt).Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Number of exits transmitting 10GB Guest->Host before:
network xmit 7858610 recv 118136After:
network xmit 7750233 recv 1Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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To simplify the transition to when we publish indices in the ring
(and make shuffling my patch queue easier), wrap them in a lg_last_avail()
macro.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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This is a simple patch to add support for the virtio "hardware random
generator" to lguest. It gets about 1.2 MB/sec reading from /dev/hwrng
in the guest.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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If you've got a nice DHCP configuration which maps MAC
addresses to specific IP addresses, then you're going to
want to start your guest with one of those MAC addresses.Also, in Fedora, we have persistent network interface naming
based on the MAC address, so with randomly assigned
addresses you're soon going to hit eth13. Who knows what
will happen then!Allow assigning a MAC address to the network interface with
e.g.--tunnet=bridge:eth0:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D
or:
--tunnet=192.168.121.1:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D
which is pretty unintelligable, but ...
(includes Rusty's minor rework)
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin
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%02x is more appropriate for bytes than %08x.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
30 May, 2008
1 commit
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This is the lguest implementation of the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature.
It is currently only published for network devices, but it is turned on for
everyone.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
02 May, 2008
2 commits
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This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.Cc: "ron minnich"
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
28 Mar, 2008
4 commits
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Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Mention the config options for the Virtio drivers and move the Virtualization
menu to the toplevel.Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle
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lguest doesn't have features, it has puppies!
Signed-off-by: Timothy R Ansell
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
11 Mar, 2008
1 commit
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The lguest launcher appends a space to the kernel command line (if kernel
arguments are specified on its command line). This space is unneeded. More
importantly, this appended space will make Red Hat's nash script interpreter
(used in a Fedora style initramfs) add an empty argument to init's command
line. This empty argument will make kernel arguments like "init=/bin/bash"
fail (because the shell will try to execute a script with an empty name).
This could be considered a bug in nash, but is easily fixed in the lguest
launcher too.Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
04 Feb, 2008
3 commits
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A reset function solves three problems:
1) It allows us to renegotiate features, eg. if we want to upgrade a
guest driver without rebooting the guest.2) It gives us a clean way of shutting down virtqueues: after a reset,
we know that the buffers won't be used by the host, and3) It helps the guest recover from messed-up drivers.
So we remove the ->shutdown hook, and the only way we now remove
feature bits is via reset.We leave it to the driver to do the reset before it deletes queues:
the balloon driver, for example, needs to chat to the host in its
remove function.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization,
to say "no need to kick me when you add things". Make it clear that
this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when
the ring is full.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill. We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
30 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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This patch makes uses of pread() and pwrite() in lguest launcher
to communicate the vcpu id to the lguest driver. The id is kept in
a thread variable, which means we'll span in the future, vcpus as
threads. But right now, only the infrastructure is out there.Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa
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Reboot Implemented
(Prevent fd leak, fix style and fix documentation --RR)
Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
18 Dec, 2007
1 commit
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Share net is not supported, Rusty is an "idiot" .
Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira
Reviewed-by: James Morris
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Nov, 2007
1 commit
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Thanks valgrind!
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
12 Nov, 2007
2 commits
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The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary. But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio
blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion.Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
25 Oct, 2007
2 commits
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Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Now the kernel headers are clean for userspace export, we don't need
to typedef kernel types before including them. We also don't need
pci_ids.h (that was from an earlier virtio draft).Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
23 Oct, 2007
7 commits
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Now that the "struct boot_params" is userspace accessible, we don't need
magic numbers.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Now arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S understands the hardware_platform field,
we can directly execute bzImages. No more horrific unpacking code.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Version 2.07 of the boot protocol uses 0x23C for the hardware_subarch
field, that for lguest is "1". This allows us to use the standard
boot entry point rather than the "GenuineLguest" string hack.The standard entry point also clears the BSS and copies the boot parameters
and commandline for us, saving more code.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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We currently discard console and network input when the guest has no
input buffers. This patch changes that, so that we simply stop
listening to that fd until the guest refills its input buffers.This is particularly important because hvc_console without interrupts
does backoff polling and so often lose characters if we discard.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Implements virtio-based console, network and block servers. The block
server uses a thread so it's async, which is an improvement over the
old synchronous implementation (but a little more complex).Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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1) This allows us to get alot closer to booting bzImages.
2) It means we don't have to know page_offset.
3) The Guest needs to modify the boot pagetables to create the
PAGE_OFFSET mapping before jumping to C code.4) guest_pa() walks the page tables rather than using page_offset.
5) We don't use page_offset to figure out whether to emulate: it was
always kinda quesationable, and won't work for instructions done
before remapping (bzImage unpacking in particular).6) We still want the kernel address for tlb flushing: have the initial
hypercall give us that, too.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
