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2015-10-22vhost user: add rarp sending after live migration for legacy guestThibaut Collet
A new vhost user message is added to allow QEMU to ask to vhost user backend to broadcast a fake RARP after live migration for guest without GUEST_ANNOUNCE capability. This new message is sent only if the backend supports the new VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_RARP protocol feature. The payload of this new message is the MAC address of the guest (not known by the backend). The MAC address is copied in the first 6 bytes of a u64 to avoid to create a new payload message type. This new message has no equivalent ioctl so a new callback is added in the userOps structure to send the request. Upon reception of this new message the vhost user backend must generate and broadcast a fake RARP request to notify the migration is terminated. Signed-off-by: Thibaut Collet <thibaut.collet@6wind.com> [Rebased and fixed checkpatch errors - Marc-André] Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Thibaut Collet <thibaut.collet@6wind.com>
2015-10-22vhost-user: document migration logMarc-André Lureau
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Thibaut Collet <thibaut.collet@6wind.com>
2015-09-24vhost-user: add a new message to disable/enable a specific virt queue.Changchun Ouyang
Add a new message, VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENABLE, to enable or disable a specific virt queue, which is similar to attach/detach queue for tap device. virtio driver on guest doesn't have to use max virt queue pair, it could enable any number of virt queue ranging from 1 to max virt queue pair. Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
2015-09-24vhost-user: add multiple queue supportChangchun Ouyang
This patch is initially based a patch from Nikolay Nikolaev. This patch adds vhost-user multiple queue support, by creating a nc and vhost_net pair for each queue. Qemu exits if find that the backend can't support the number of requested queues (by providing queues=# option). The max number is queried by a new message, VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM, and is sent only when protocol feature VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ is present first. The max queue check is done at vhost-user initiation stage. We initiate one queue first, which, in the meantime, also gets the max_queues the backend supports. In older version, it was reported that some messages are sent more times than necessary. Here we came an agreement with Michael that we could categorize vhost user messages to 2 types: non-vring specific messages, which should be sent only once, and vring specific messages, which should be sent per queue. Here I introduced a helper function vhost_user_one_time_request(), which lists following messages as non-vring specific messages: VHOST_USER_SET_OWNER VHOST_USER_RESET_DEVICE VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM For above messages, we simply ignore them when they are not sent the first time. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
2015-09-24vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM messageYuanhan Liu
This is for querying how many queues the backend supports if it has mq support(when VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ flag is set from the quried protocol features). vhost_net_get_max_queues() is the interface to export that value, and to tell if the backend supports # of queues user requested, which is done in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
2015-09-24vhost: rename VHOST_RESET_OWNER to VHOST_RESET_DEVICEYuanhan Liu
Quote from Michael: We really should rename VHOST_RESET_OWNER to VHOST_RESET_DEVICE. Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
2015-09-24vhost-user: add protocol feature negotiationMichael S. Tsirkin
Support a separate bitmask for vhost-user protocol features, and messages to get/set protocol features. Invoke them at init. No features are defined yet. [ leverage vhost_user_call for request handling -- Yuanhan Liu ] Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
2015-07-20Revert "vhost-user: add multi queue support"Michael S. Tsirkin
This reverts commit 830d70db692e374b55555f4407f96a1ceefdcc97. The interface isn't fully backwards-compatible, which is bad. Let's redo this properly after 2.4. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-06-01vhost-user: add multi queue supportOuyang Changchun
Based on patch by Nikolay Nikolaev: Vhost-user will implement the multi queue support in a similar way to what vhost already has - a separate thread for each queue. To enable the multi queue functionality - a new command line parameter "queues" is introduced for the vhost-user netdev. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-29vhost-user: typo fixupsMichael S. Tsirkin
Fix typo in field name. Strip two consequitive empty lines. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-29vhost-user: fix regions provied with VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE messageDamjan Marion
Old code was affected by memory gaps which resulted in buffer pointers pointing to address outside of the mapped regions. Here we are introducing following changes: - new function qemu_get_ram_block_host_ptr() returns host pointer to the ram block, it is needed to calculate offset of specific region in the host memory - new field mmap_offset is added to the VhostUserMemoryRegion. It contains offset where specific region starts in the mapped memory. As there is stil no wider adoption of vhost-user agreement was made that we will not bump version number due to this change - other fileds in VhostUserMemoryRegion struct are not changed, as they are all needed for usermode app implementation - region data is not taken from ram_list.blocks anymore, instead we use region data which is alredy calculated for use in vhost-net - Now multiple regions can have same FD and user applicaton can call mmap() multiple times with the same FD but with different offset (user needs to take care for offset page alignment) Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
2014-06-29vhost-user: fix wrong ids in documentationDamjan Marion
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-19Add vhost-user protocol documentationNikolay Nikolaev
This document describes the basic message format used by vhost-user for communication over a unix domain socket. The protocol is based on the existing ioctl interface used for the kernel version of vhost. Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>