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Amit Shah
0d8d769085 virtio: Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes()
The current virtqueue_avail_bytes() is oddly named, and checks if a
particular number of bytes are available in a vq.  A better API is to
fetch the number of bytes available in the vq, and let the caller do
what's interesting with the numbers.

Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes(), which returns the number of bytes
for buffers marked for both, in as well as out.  virtqueue_avail_bytes()
is made a wrapper over this new function.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-09-28 12:16:27 +02:00
Amit Shah
385ce95d9d virtio: use unsigned int for counting bytes in vq
The virtqueue_avail_bytes() function counts bytes in an int.  Use an
unsigned int instead.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-09-28 12:16:27 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
0cea71a207 virtio: don't mark unaccessed memory as dirty
offset of accessed buffer is calculated using iov_length, so it
can exceed accessed len. If that happens
math in len - offset wraps around, and size becomes wrong.
As real value is 0, so this is harmless but unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-09-28 12:16:27 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
26b9b5fe17 virtio: fix vhost handling
Commit b1f416aa8d breaks vhost_net
because it always registers the virtio_pci_host_notifier_read() handler
function on the ioeventfd, even when vhost_net.ko is using the ioeventfd.
The result is both QEMU and vhost_net.ko polling on the same eventfd
and the virtio_net.ko guest driver seeing inconsistent results:

  # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
  virtio_net virtio0: output:id 0 is not a head!

To fix this, proceed the same as we do for irqfd: add a parameter to
virtio_queue_set_host_notifier_fd_handler and in that case only set
the notifier, not the handler.

Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-08-06 14:01:44 -05:00
Paolo Bonzini
15b2bd1847 virtio: move common irqfd handling out of virtio-pci
All transports can use the same event handler for the irqfd, though the
exact mechanics of the assignment will be specific.  Note that there
are three states: handled by the kernel, handled in userspace, disabled.

This also lets virtio use event_notifier_set_handler.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-07-12 14:08:11 +03:00
Paolo Bonzini
b1f416aa8d virtio: move common ioeventfd handling out of virtio-pci
All transports can use the same event handler for the ioeventfd, though
the exact setup (address/memory region) will be specific.

This lets virtio use event_notifier_set_handler.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-07-12 14:08:11 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
a821ce5933 virtio: order index/descriptor reads
virtio has the equivalent of:

	if (vq->last_avail_index != vring_avail_idx(vq)) {
		read descriptor head at vq->last_avail_index;
	}

In theory, processor can reorder descriptor head
read to happen speculatively before the index read.
this would trigger the following race:

	host descriptor head read <- reads invalid head from ring
		guest writes valid descriptor head
		guest writes avail index
	host avail index read <- observes valid index

as a result host will use an invalid head value.
This was not observed in the field by me but after
the experience with the previous two races
I think it is prudent to address this theoretical race condition.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-25 10:53:47 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
92045d80ba virtio: add missing mb() on enable notification
This fixes an issue dual to the one fixed by
patch 'virtio: add missing mb() on notification'
and applies on top.

In this case, to enable vq kick to exit to host,
qemu writes out used flag then reads the
avail index. if these are reordered we get a race:

    host avail index read: ring is empty
    		guest avail index write
    		guest flag read: exit disabled
    host used flag write: enable exit

which results in a lost exit: host will never be notified about the
avail index update.  Again, happens in the field but only seems to
trigger on some specific hardware.

Insert an smp_mb barrier operation to ensure the correct ordering.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-25 10:53:47 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
a281ebc11a virtio: add missing mb() on notification
During normal operation, virtio first writes a used index
and then checks whether it should interrupt the guest
by reading guest avail index/flag values.

Guest does the reverse: writes the index/flag,
then checks the used ring.

The ordering is important: if host avail flag read bypasses the used
index write, we could in effect get this timing:

host avail flag read
		guest enable interrupts: avail flag write
		guest check used ring: ring is empty
host used index write

which results in a lost interrupt: guest will never be notified
about the used ring update.

This actually can happen when using kvm with an io thread,
such that the guest vcpu and qemu run on different host cpus,
and this has actually been observed in the field
(but only seems to trigger on very specific processor types)
with userspace virtio: vhost has the necessary smp_mb()
in place to prevent the regordering, so the same workload stalls
forever waiting for an interrupt with vhost=off but works
fine with vhost=on.

Insert an smp_mb barrier operation in userspace virtio to
ensure the correct ordering.
Applying this patch fixed the race condition we have observed.
Tested on x86_64. I checked the code generated by the new macro
for i386 and ppc but didn't run virtio.

Note: mb could in theory be implemented by __sync_synchronize, but this
would make us hit old GCC bugs. Besides old GCC
not implementing __sync_synchronize at all, there were bugs
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36793
in this functionality as recently as in 4.3.

As we need asm for rmb,wmb anyway, it's just as well to
use it for mb.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-25 10:53:46 +03:00
Paolo Bonzini
c80decdbd9 virtio: add virtio_queue_get_id
Serializing virtio-scsi requests needs a simple way to get from a
VirtQueue to the number of the queue.  The virtio_queue_get_id
provides this.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-04-19 10:31:05 +02:00
Luiz Capitulino
6f79e06b35 virtio: Remove unneeded g_free() check in virtio_cleanup()
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-10 10:44:52 +00:00
Alexander Graf
06dbfc6f88 virtio: change memcpy to guest reads
When accessing the device specific virtio config space, we memcpy
the data into a variable in QEMU. At that point we're basically
pulling host endianness into the game which is a really bad idea.

So instead, let's use the target specific load/store helpers for
memory pointers which fetch things in target endianness. The whole
array is already populated in target endianness anyways
(see virtio-blk).

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2012-01-21 05:17:01 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini
ad0c93328d virtio: add and use virtio_set_features
vdev->guest_features is not masking features that are not supported by
the guest.  Fix this by introducing a common wrapper to be used by all
virtio bus implementations.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-11-28 11:36:28 -06:00
David Gibson
b90d2f3512 virtio: Use global memory barrier macros
The virtio code uses wmb() macros in several places, as required by the
SMP-aware virtio protocol.  However the wmb() macro is locally defined
to be a compiler barrier only.  This is probably sufficient on x86
due to its strong storage ordering model, but it certainly isn't on other
platforms, such as ppc.

In any case, qemu already has some globally defined memory barrier macros
in qemu-barrier.h.  This patch, therefore converts virtio.c to use those
barrier macros.  The macros in qemu-barrier.h are also wrong (or at least,
safe for x86 only) but this way at least there's only one place to fix
them.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-09-23 11:51:05 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
7f67d8922e Merge remote-tracking branch 'qmp/queue/qmp' into staging 2011-09-20 15:16:00 -05:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
4e1837f855 trace: add virtio_set_status() trace event
The virtio device lifecycle can be observed by looking at the sequence
of set status operations.  This is especially important for catching the
reset operation (status value 0), which resets the device and all
virtqueues.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 15:14:24 +00:00
Luiz Capitulino
1354869c38 Drop the vm_running global variable
Use runstate_is_running() instead, which is introduced by this commit.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2011-09-15 16:39:32 -03:00
Luiz Capitulino
1dfb4dd993 Replace the VMSTOP macros with a proper state type
Today, when notifying a VM state change with vm_state_notify(),
we pass a VMSTOP macro as the 'reason' argument. This is not ideal
because the VMSTOP macros tell why qemu stopped and not exactly
what the current VM state is.

One example to demonstrate this problem is that vm_start() calls
vm_state_notify() with reason=0, which turns out to be VMSTOP_USER.

This commit fixes that by replacing the VMSTOP macros with a proper
state type called RunState.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2011-09-15 16:39:32 -03:00
Anthony Liguori
7267c0947d Use glib memory allocation and free functions
qemu_malloc/qemu_free no longer exist after this commit.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-08-20 23:01:08 -05:00
Amit Shah
845f85fa15 virtio: Plug memleak by freeing vdev
virtio_common_init() allocates RAM for the vdev struct (and any
additional memory, depending on the size passed to the function).  This
memory wasn't being freed until now.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-27 20:19:27 +03:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
c8eac1cfa1 virtio: fix indirect descriptor buffer overflow
We were previously allowing arbitrarily-long indirect descriptors, which
could lead to a buffer overflow in qemu-kvm process.

CVE-2011-2212

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-17 18:47:34 +03:00
Markus Armbruster
6daf194dde Strip trailing '\n' from error_report()'s first argument
error_report() prepends location, and appends a newline.  The message
constructed from the arguments should not contain a newline.  Fix the
obvious offenders.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-06-24 09:13:36 +01:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
bcbabae8ff virtio: event index support
Add support for event_idx feature, and utilize it to
reduce the number of interrupts and exits for the guest.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-06-12 16:36:53 +03:00
Jason Wang
d3674c5754 virtio: correctly initialize vm_running
Current vm_running was not explicitly initialized and its value was changed by
vm state notifier, this may confuse the virtio device being hotplugged such as
virtio-net with vhost backend as it may think the vm was not running. Solve this
by initialize this value explicitly in virtio_common_init().

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-06-12 10:33:38 +03:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
7157e2e23e virtio: guard against negative vq notifies
The virtio_queue_notify() function checks that the virtqueue number is
less than the maximum number of virtqueues.  A signed comparison is used
but the virtqueue number could be negative if a buggy or malicious guest
is run.  This results in memory accesses outside of the virtqueue array.

It is risky doing input validation in common code instead of at the
guest<->host boundary.  Note that virtio_queue_set_addr(),
virtio_queue_get_addr(), virtio_queue_get_num(), and many other virtio
functions do *not* validate the virtqueue number argument.

Instead of fixing the comparison in virtio_queue_notify(), move the
comparison to the virtio bindings (just like VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_SEL) where
we have a uint32_t value and can avoid ever calling into common virtio
code if the virtqueue number is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-06-12 10:33:38 +03:00
Blue Swirl
a08784dd11 Remove unused sysemu.h include directives
Remove unused sysemu.h include directives to speed up build
with the following patches.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-04-15 18:25:41 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
25db9ebe15 virtio-pci: Use ioeventfd for virtqueue notify
Virtqueue notify is currently handled synchronously in userspace virtio.  This
prevents the vcpu from executing guest code while hardware emulation code
handles the notify.

On systems that support KVM, the ioeventfd mechanism can be used to make
virtqueue notify a lightweight exit by deferring hardware emulation to the
iothread and allowing the VM to continue execution.  This model is similar to
how vhost receives virtqueue notifies.

The result of this change is improved performance for userspace virtio devices.
Virtio-blk throughput increases especially for multithreaded scenarios and
virtio-net transmit throughput increases substantially.

Some virtio devices are known to have guest drivers which expect a notify to be
processed synchronously and spin waiting for completion.
For virtio-net, this also seems to interact with the guest stack in strange
ways so that TCP throughput for small message sizes (~200bytes)
is harmed. Only enable ioeventfd for virtio-blk for now.

Care must be taken not to interfere with vhost-net, which uses host
notifiers.  If the set_host_notifier() API is used by a device
virtio-pci will disable virtio-ioeventfd and let the device deal with
host notifiers as it wishes.

Finally, there used to be a limit of 6 KVM io bus devices inside the
kernel.  On such a kernel, don't use ioeventfd for virtqueue host
notification since the limit is reached too easily.  This ensures that
existing vhost-net setups (which always use ioeventfd) have ioeventfds
available so they can continue to work.

After migration and on VM change state (running/paused) virtio-ioeventfd
will enable/disable itself.

 * VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK -> enable virtio-ioeventfd
 * !VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
 * virtio_pci_set_host_notifier() -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
 * vm_change_state(running=0) -> disable virtio-ioeventfd
 * vm_change_state(running=1) -> enable virtio-ioeventfd

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-10 14:44:16 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
85cf2a8d74 virtio: move vmstate change tracking to core
Move tracking vmstate change from virtio-net to virtio.c
as it is going to be used by virito-blk and virtio-pci
for the ioeventfd support.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-01-10 14:44:07 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
1abeb5a65d virtio: fix up VQ checks
When migration triggers before a VQ is initialized,
base pa is 0 and last_used_index must be 0 too:
we don't have a ring to compare to.

Reported-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-11-24 17:25:44 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
ce67ed6500 virtio: Convert fprintf() to error_report()
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
(cherry picked from commit cd92f4cc22)
2010-11-24 17:25:35 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
258dc7c96b virtio: sanity-check available index
Checking available index upon load instead of
only when vm is running makes is easier to
debug failures.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-27 18:54:02 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
e0c472d8c2 virtio: invoke set_status callback on reset
As status is set to 0 on reset, invoke the relevant callback. This makes
for a cleaner code in devices as they don't need to duplicate the code
in their reset routine, as well as excercises this path a little more.

In particular this makes it possible to unify
vhost-net handling code with the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-07 12:19:47 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
64979a4d61 trace: Trace virtqueue operations
This patch adds trace events for virtqueue operations including
adding/removing buffers, notifying the guest, and receiving a notify
from the guest.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-09-09 16:22:45 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
42fb2e0720 virtio: Factor virtqueue_map_sg out
Separate the mapping of requests to host memory from the descriptor iteration.
The next patch will make use of it in a different context.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2010-08-30 18:29:19 +02:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
fae054b070 virtio: invoke set_features on load
After migration, vhost was not getting features
acked because set_features callback was never invoked.
The fix is just to invoke that callback.

Reported-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-12 18:07:54 +03:00
Stefan Weil
2b3af99984 win32: Fix compiler errors from u_int64_t
u_int64_t raises compiler error messages:

  CC    libhw32/virtio.o
/qemu/ar7/hw/virtio.c: In function ‘virtio_queue_get_avail_size’:
/qemu/ar7/hw/virtio.c:776: error: ‘u_int64_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/qemu/ar7/hw/virtio.c:776: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/qemu/ar7/hw/virtio.c:776: error: for each function it appears in.)

Replacing u_int64_t by uint64_t helps.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-01 17:01:02 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
1cbdabe203 virtio: notifier support + APIs for queue fields
vhost needs physical addresses for ring and other queue fields,
so add APIs for these. In particular, add binding API to set
host/guest notifiers.  Will be used by vhost.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-01 13:56:43 -05:00
Amit Shah
bb61564c77 virtio: Remove duplicate macro definition for max. virtqueues, bump up the max
VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_MAX is redefined in hw/virtio.c. Let's just keep it in
hw/virtio.h.

Also, bump up the value of the maximum allowed virtqueues to 64. This is
in preparation to allow multiple ports per virtio-console device.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-20 08:25:23 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
8172539d21 virtio: add features as qdev properties
Add feature bits as properties to virtio. This makes it possible to e.g. define
machine without indirect buffer support, which is required for 0.10
compatibility, or without hardware checksum support, which is required for 0.11
compatibility.  Since default values for optional features are now set by qdev,
get_features callback has been modified: it sets non-optional bits, and clears
bits not supported by host.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-11 13:40:59 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
704a76fcd2 virtio: rename features -> guest_features
Rename features->guest_features. This is
what they are, avoid confusion with
host features which we also need to keep around.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-11 13:40:59 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
6d74ca5aa8 virtio: verify features on load
migrating between hosts which have different features
might break silently, if the migration destination
does not support some features supported by source.

Prevent this from happening by comparing acked feature
bits with the mask supported by the device.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-12-12 07:59:38 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
79758e95d7 qemu/virtio: make wmb compiler barrier + comments
wmb must be at least a compiler barrier, even without SMP.
Further, we likely need some rmb()/mb() as well:
I have not audited the code but lguest has mb(),
add a comment for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-30 08:39:34 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
c227f0995e Revert "Get rid of _t suffix"
In the very least, a change like this requires discussion on the list.

The naming convention is goofy and it causes a massive merge problem.  Something
like this _must_ be presented on the list first so people can provide input
and cope with it.

This reverts commit 99a0949b72.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-01 16:12:16 -05:00
malc
99a0949b72 Get rid of _t suffix
Some not so obvious bits, slirp and Xen were left alone for the time
being.

Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2009-10-01 22:45:02 +04:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
b8193adbda qemu: init all queues to NO_VECTOR value
initialize vectors for all vqs to VIRTIO_NO_VECTOR rather than 0 which
is a valid vector. This fixes migration which happened before driver
was loaded.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-11 10:19:46 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
dca61621f8 qemu: remove control vector save
control vector is saved/restored by virtio-pci,
it does not belong in virtio.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-07-09 16:58:08 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
ff24bd589c qemu/virtio: virtio save/load bindings
Implement bindings for virtio save/load. Use them in virtio pci.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-24 09:09:15 -05:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
7055e687cd qemu/virtio: virtio support for many interrupt vectors
Extend virtio to support many interrupt vectors, and rearrange code in
preparation for multi-vector support (mostly move reset out to bindings,
because we will have to reset the vectors in transport-specific code).
Actual bindings in pci, and use in net, to follow.
Load and save are not connected to bindings yet, so they are left
stubbed out for now.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-24 09:09:14 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
efeea6d048 virtio: add support for indirect ring entries
Support a new feature flag for indirect ring entries. These are ring
entries which point to a table of buffer descriptors.

The idea here is to increase the ring capacity by allowing a larger
effective ring size whereby the ring size dictates the number of
requests that may be outstanding, rather than the size of those
requests.

This should be most effective in the case of block I/O where we can
potentially benefit by concurrently dispatching a large number of
large requests. Even in the simple case of single segment block
requests, this results in a threefold increase in ring capacity.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 10:10:50 -05:00
Mark McLoughlin
5774cf98ca virtio: make vring_desc_*() take phys addrs
Change the vring descriptor helpers to take the physical
address of the descriptor table rather than a virtqueue.

This is needed in order to allow these helpers to be used
with an indirect descriptor table.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 10:10:50 -05:00