qemu: generate signals on tap I/O

Currently tap does not generate signals on I/O; this causes
network latency to be dependent on the timer tick (1ms without
dyntick, guest dependent with dyntick).  By generating a signal
on I/O, we can inform the guest immediately that a packet has
arrived.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>


git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@4341 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index ea8c63c5db..f752a3b741 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -4030,6 +4030,7 @@ static TAPState *net_tap_fd_init(VLANState *vlan, int fd)
     if (!s)
         return NULL;
     s->fd = fd;
+    enable_sigio_timer(fd);
     s->vc = qemu_new_vlan_client(vlan, tap_receive, NULL, s);
     qemu_set_fd_handler(s->fd, tap_send, NULL, s);
     snprintf(s->vc->info_str, sizeof(s->vc->info_str), "tap: fd=%d", fd);