As of today, vhost assumes guest and host have the same endianness.
This is definitely not compatible with modern PPC64 and ARM that
can change endianness at runtime. Let's disable vhost-net and print
an error message when we detect such a case:
qemu-system-ppc64: vhost-net does not support cross-endian
qemu-system-ppc64: unable to start vhost net: 38: falling back on userspace virtio
This way users can continue to run VMs without changing their setup and
have a chance to know that performance will be impacted.
Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The supplied chardev id will be inspected for supported options. Only
a socket backend, with a set path (i.e. a Unix socket) and optionally
the server parameter set, will be allowed. Other options (nowait, telnet)
will make the chardev unusable and the netdev will not be initialised.
Additional checks for validity:
- requires `-numa node,memdev=..`
- requires `-device virtio-net-*`
The `vhostforce` option is used to force vhost-net when we deal with
non-MSIX guests.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Handle the feature bits negotiation when using vhost-user. Allow
the underlying implementation to have a finer control over all the
bits except the VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Use vhost_set_backend_type to initialise a proper vhost_ops structure.
In vhost_net_init and vhost_net_start_one call conditionally TAP related
initialisation depending on the vhost backend type.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Decouple vhost from the Linux kernel by introducing vhost_ops. The
intention is to provide different backends - a 'kernel' backend based on
the ioctl interface, and an 'user' backend based on a UNIX domain socket
and shared memory interface.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
vhost_dev_init will replace devfd and devpath with a single opaque argument.
This is initialised with a file descriptor. When TAP is used (through
vhost_net), open /dev/vhost-net and pass the fd as an opaque parameter in
VhostNetOptions. The same applies to vhost-scsi - open /dev/vhost-scsi and
pass the fd.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This decouples virtio-net from the TAP netdev backend and allows support
for other backends to be implemented.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
The poll callback needs to be called when bringing up or down
the vhost_net instance. As it is not mandatory for an NetClient
to implement it, invoke it only when it is set.
Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Generalize the features get/ack to be used for both vhost-net and vhost-scsi.
In vhost-net add vhost_net_get_feature_bits to select the feature bit set
depending on the NetClient kind.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
There is no need to access backend->info->has_vnet_hdr() and friends
anymore. Use the qemu_has_vnet_hdr() API instead.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
With this patch, virtio-net and vmxnet3 frontends make
use of the qemu_peer_* API for backend offloadings manipulations,
instead of calling TAP-specific functions directly.
We also remove the existing checks which prevent those frontends
from using offloadings with backends different from TAP (e.g. netmap).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
cgcc complains that -ENOSYS is not a good value for 'bool'.
A dummy virtio will never have pending queue entries, so let us return
false.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This remove virtio-bindings, and use class instead.
Signed-off-by: KONRAD Frederic <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Message-id: 1366791683-5350-6-git-send-email-fred.konrad@greensocs.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
