27 Jul, 2011
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This allows us to move duplicated code in
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) toSigned-off-by: Arun Sharma
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Jul, 2011
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Move the used ring initialization after backend was set. This
makes it possible to disable the backend and tweak the used ring,
then restart. This will also make it possible to log the used ring
write correctly.Signed-off-by: Jason Wang
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>From: Shirley Ma
This adds experimental zero copy support in vhost-net,
disabled by default. To enable, set
experimental_zcopytx module option to 1.This patch maintains the outstanding userspace buffers in the
sequence it is delivered to vhost. The outstanding userspace buffers
will be marked as done once the lower device buffers DMA has finished.
This is monitored through last reference of kfree_skb callback. Two
buffer indices are used for this purpose.The vhost-net device passes the userspace buffers info to lower device
skb through message control. DMA done status check and guest
notification are handled by handle_tx: in the worst case is all buffers
in the vq are in pending/done status, so we need to notify guest to
release DMA done buffers first before we get any new buffers from the
vq.One known problem is that if the guest stops submitting
buffers, buffers might never get used until some
further action, e.g. device reset. This does not
seem to affect linux guests.Signed-off-by: Shirley
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 May, 2011
1 commit
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Support the new event index feature. When acked,
utilize it to reduce the # of interrupts sent to the guest.Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
01 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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When built with rcu checks enabled, vhost triggers
bogus warnings as vhost features are read without
dev->mutex sometimes, and private pointer is read
with our kind of rcu where work serves as a
read side critical section.Fixing it properly is not trivial.
Disable the warnings by stubbing out the checks for now.Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
09 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jason Wang
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
24 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits)
bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL.
vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid.
tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip
tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match
cxgb3: function namespace cleanup
tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target
tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core
be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w
tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled
tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer
tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function
tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions
tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module
l2tp: small cleanup
nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header
can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames
can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set
can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic
9p: client code cleanup
rds: make local functions/variables static
...Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
05 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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Qemu supports up to UIO_MAXIOV s/g so we have to match that because guest
drivers may rely on this.Allocate indirect and log arrays dynamically to avoid using too much contigious
memory and make the length of hdr array to match the header length since each
iovec entry has a least one byte.Test with copying large files w/ and w/o migration in both linux and windows
guests.Signed-off-by: Jason Wang
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
22 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Also add rcu_dereference_protected() for code paths where locks are held.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
28 Jul, 2010
2 commits
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This adds support for mergeable buffers in vhost-net: this is needed
for older guests without indirect buffer support, as well
as for zero copy with some devices.Includes changes by Michael S. Tsirkin to make the
patch as low risk as possible (i.e., close to no changes
when feature is disabled).Signed-off-by: David Stevens
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Replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread. Other than callback
argument change from struct work_struct * to struct vhost_work *,
there's no visible change to vhost_poll_*() interface.This conversion is to make each vhost use a dedicated kthread so that
resource control via cgroup can be applied.Partially based on Sridhar Samudrala's patch.
* Updated to use sub structure vhost_work instead of directly using
vhost_poll at Michael's suggestion.* Added flusher wake_up() optimization at Michael's suggestion.
Changes by MST:
* Converted atomics/barrier use to a spinlock.
* Create thread on SET_OWNER
* Fix flushingSigned-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala
27 Jun, 2010
1 commit
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When ring parsing fails, we currently handle this
as ring empty condition. This means that we enable
kicks and recheck ring empty: if this not empty,
we re-start polling which of course will fail again.Instead, let's return a negative error code and stop polling.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
15 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to useNote on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.(Includes fixes by Alan Cox ,
David L Stevens ,
Chris Wright )Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney"
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller