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_int.h b/net/tap_int.h
index 125f83d5b0..86bb224bc8 100644
--- a/net/tap_int.h
+++ b/net/tap_int.h
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
 #define DEFAULT_NETWORK_SCRIPT "/etc/qemu-ifup"
 #define DEFAULT_NETWORK_DOWN_SCRIPT "/etc/qemu-ifdown"
 
-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);
 
 ssize_t tap_read_packet(int tapfd, uint8_t *buf, int maxlen);