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2010-01-26virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driverAdam Litke
When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current method employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics to a host daemon at a specified time interval. The host daemon aggregates this information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of host memory pressure. This approach is effective but overly complex since a daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate with the host. A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2010-01-11virtio: add features as qdev propertiesMichael S. Tsirkin
Add feature bits as properties to virtio. This makes it possible to e.g. define machine without indirect buffer support, which is required for 0.10 compatibility, or without hardware checksum support, which is required for 0.11 compatibility. Since default values for optional features are now set by qdev, get_features callback has been modified: it sets non-optional bits, and clears bits not supported by host. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-01Revert "Get rid of _t suffix"Anthony Liguori
In the very least, a change like this requires discussion on the list. The naming convention is goofy and it causes a massive merge problem. Something like this _must_ be presented on the list first so people can provide input and cope with it. This reverts commit 99a0949b720a0936da2052cb9a46db04ffc6db29. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2009-10-01Get rid of _t suffixmalc
Some not so obvious bits, slirp and Xen were left alone for the time being. Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
2009-05-18Separate virtio PCI codePaul Brook
Split the PCI host bindings from the VRing transport implementation. Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-14Virtio-balloon qdev conversionPaul Brook
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-05-14Virtio-net qdev conversionPaul Brook
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-04-10Yet more phys_ram_base elimination.pbrook
Signed-off-by: Paul Brook <paul@cofdesourcery.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7067 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-02-01Add and use #defines for PCI device classesblueswir1
This patch adds and uses #defines for PCI device classes and subclases, using a new pci_config_set_class() function, similar to the recently added pci_config_set_vendor_id() and pci_config_set_device_id(). Change since v1: fixed compilation of hw/sun4u.c Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6491 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2009-01-26Use the default subsystem vendor ID for virtio devices (Mark McLoughlin)aliguori
A subsystem vendor ID of zero isn't allowed, so we use our default ID. Gerd points out that although the PCI subsystem vendor ID is treated by the guest as the virtio vendor ID: /* we use the subsystem vendor/device id as the virtio vendor/device * id. this allows us to use the same PCI vendor/device id for all * virtio devices and to identify the particular virtio driver by * the subsytem ids */ vp_dev->vdev.id.vendor = pci_dev->subsystem_vendor; vp_dev->vdev.id.device = pci_dev->subsystem_device; it looks like only the device ID is used right now: # grep virtio modules.alias alias virtio:d00000001v* virtio_net alias virtio:d00000002v* virtio_blk alias virtio:d00000003v* virtio_console alias virtio:d00000004v* virtio-rng alias virtio:d00000005v* virtio_balloon alias pci:v00001AF4d*sv*sd*bc*sc*i* virtio_pci alias virtio:d00000009v* 9pnet_virtio so setting the subsystem vendor id to something != zero shouldn't cause trouble. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6440 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-12-11pci: virtio: use pci id defines (Gerd Hoffman)aliguori
Use the defines added by the previous patch in the virtio drivers. Also remove the pointless vendor and device args from the virtio_blk_init() function. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5987 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-12-04Add virtio-balloon supportaliguori
This adds a VirtIO based balloon driver. It uses madvise() to actually balloon the memory when possible. Until 2.6.27, KVM forced memory pinning so we must disable ballooning unless the kernel actually supports it when using KVM. It's always safe when using TCG. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5874 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162