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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2012-11-14 15:39:30 +0100
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2013-01-02 16:08:47 +0100
commite72f66a0a20f38d0c7576f6c0aec0ca644976e35 (patch)
tree9d11eacdfee7ea73f47543d3617cb07e8a3a2cca /hw/virtio-blk.h
parent8a873ba78069ef81c4ef073a0bd703172c8b3312 (diff)
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/virtio-blk.h b/hw/virtio-blk.h
index 454f445d61..43ca492080 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-blk.h
+++ b/hw/virtio-blk.h
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct VirtIOBlkConf
char *serial;
uint32_t scsi;
uint32_t config_wce;
+ uint32_t data_plane;
};
#define DEFINE_VIRTIO_BLK_FEATURES(_state, _field) \