dataplane: add virtio-blk data plane code

virtio-blk-data-plane is a subset implementation of virtio-blk.  It only
handles read, write, and flush requests.  It does this using a dedicated
thread that executes an epoll(2)-based event loop and processes I/O
using Linux AIO.

This approach performs very well but can be used for raw image files
only.  The number of IOPS achieved has been reported to be several times
higher than the existing virtio-blk implementation.

Eventually it should be possible to unify virtio-blk-data-plane with the
main body of QEMU code once the block layer and hardware emulation is
able to run outside the global mutex.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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diff --git a/hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.h b/hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.h
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+/*
+ * Dedicated thread for virtio-blk I/O processing
+ *
+ * Copyright 2012 IBM, Corp.
+ * Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H
+#define HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H
+
+#include "hw/virtio.h"
+
+typedef struct VirtIOBlockDataPlane VirtIOBlockDataPlane;
+
+bool virtio_blk_data_plane_create(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk,
+                                  VirtIOBlockDataPlane **dataplane);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_destroy(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_start(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_stop(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_drain(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+
+#endif /* HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H */