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2013-02-01vhost: multiqueue supportJason Wang
This patch lets vhost support multiqueue. The idea is simple, just launching multiple threads of vhost and let each of vhost thread processing a subset of the virtqueues of the device. After this change each emulated device can have multiple vhost threads as its backend. To do this, a virtqueue index were introduced to record to first virtqueue that will be handled by this vhost_net device. Based on this and nvqs, vhost could calculate its relative index to setup vhost_net device. Since we may have many vhost/net devices for a virtio-net device. The setting of guest notifiers were moved out of the starting/stopping of a specific vhost thread. The vhost_net_{start|stop}() were renamed to vhost_net_{start|stop}_one(), and a new vhost_net_{start|stop}() were introduced to configure the guest notifiers and start/stop all vhost/vhost_net devices. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2013-01-07vhost: backend masking supportMichael S. Tsirkin
Support backend guest notifier masking in vhost-net: create eventfd at device init, when masked, make vhost use that as eventfd instead of sending an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-12-19exec: move include files to include/exec/Paolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-09-07vhost: Pass device path to vhost_dev_init()Stefan Hajnoczi
The path to /dev/vhost-net is currently hardcoded in vhost_dev_init(). This needs to be changed so that /dev/vhost-scsi can be used. Pass in the device path instead of hardcoding it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-01-03vhost: avoid cpu_get_physical_page_desc()Avi Kivity
This reaches into the innards of the memory core, which are being changed. Switch to a memory API version. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-12-20vhost: convert to MemoryListener APIAvi Kivity
Drop the use of cpu_register_phys_memory_client() in favour of the new MemoryListener API. The new API simplifies the caller, since there is no need to deal with splitting and merging slots; however this is not exploited in this patch. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-08-26vhost-net: cleanup host notifiers at last stepMichael S. Tsirkin
When the vhost notifier is disabled, the userspace handler runs immediately: virtio_pci_set_host_notifier_internal might call virtio_queue_notify_vq. Since the VQ state and the tap backend state aren't recovered yet, this causes "Guest moved used index from XXX to YYY" assertions. The solution is to split out host notifier handling from vhost VQ setup and disable notifiers as our last step when we stop vhost-net. For symmetry enable them first thing on start. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-02-01vhost: force vhost off for non-MSI guestsmst@redhat.com
When MSI is off, each interrupt needs to be bounced through the io thread when it's set/cleared, so vhost-net causes more context switches and higher CPU utilization than userspace virtio which handles networking in the same thread. We'll need to fix this by adding level irq support in kvm irqfd, for now disable vhost-net in these configurations. Added a vhostforce flag to force vhost-net back on. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-04-01vhost: vhost net supportMichael S. Tsirkin
This adds vhost net device support in qemu. Will be tied to tap device and virtio by following patches. Raw backend is currently missing, will be worked on/submitted separately. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>