tap: multiqueue support

Recently, linux support multiqueue tap which could let userspace call TUNSETIFF
for a signle device many times to create multiple file descriptors as
independent queues. User could also enable/disabe a specific queue through
TUNSETQUEUE.

The patch adds the generic infrastructure to create multiqueue taps. To achieve
this a new parameter "queues" were introduced to specify how many queues were
expected to be created for tap by qemu itself. Alternatively, management could
also pass multiple pre-created tap file descriptors separated with ':' through a
new parameter fds like -netdev tap,id=hn0,fds="X:Y:..:Z". Multiple vhost file
descriptors could also be passed in this way.

Each TAPState were still associated to a tap fd, which mean multiple TAPStates
were created when user needs multiqueue taps. Since each TAPState contains one
NetClientState, with the multiqueue nic support, an N peers of NetClientState
were built up.

A new parameter, mq_required were introduce in tap_open() to create multiqueue
tap fds.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/tap-aix.c b/net/tap-aix.c
index e760e9a0e7..804d16448d 100644
--- a/net/tap-aix.c
+++ b/net/tap-aix.c
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
 #include "tap_int.h"
 #include <stdio.h>
 
-int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr, int vnet_hdr_required)
+int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr,
+             int vnet_hdr_required, int mq_required)
 {
     fprintf(stderr, "no tap on AIX\n");
     return -1;