Add a new VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCACHE feature to virtio-blk to indicate that we have
a volatile write cache that needs controlled flushing. Implement a
VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH operation to flush it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
[brought forward to current qemu-kvm.git]
This patch implements the missing qemu logic to
interpret a '-drive .. serial=XYZ ..' flag for
a virtio_blk device.
The serial number string is contained in a
skeletal IDENTIFY DEVICE data structure and
this structure is made available to the guest
virtio_blk driver via pci i/o region 0.
Signed-off-by: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The inhdr is at the end of the S/G list, not the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
[had the qemu list address wrong the first time, reply to this message,
not the previous if you were on Cc]
Add support for SG_IO passthru (packet commands) to the virtio-blk
backend. Conceptually based on an older patch from Hannes Reinecke
but largely rewritten to match the code structure and layering in
virtio-blk.
Note that currently we issue the hose SG_IO synchronously. We could
easily switch to async I/O, but that would required either bloating
the VirtIOBlockReq by the size of struct sg_io_hdr or an additional
memory allocation for each SG_IO request.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Use the defines added by the previous patch in the virtio drivers.
Also remove the pointless vendor and device args from the
virtio_blk_init() function.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5987 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO. It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.
When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5870 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
