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Rusty Russell
1842f23c05 lguest and virtio: cleanup struct definitions to Linux style.
I've been doing this for years, and akpm picked me up on it about 12
months ago.  lguest partly serves as example code, so let's do it Right.

Also, remove two unused fields in struct vblk_info in the example launcher.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
Mark McLoughlin
9fa29b9df3 virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
Add a new feature flag for indirect ring entries. These are ring
entries which point to a table of buffer descriptors.

The idea here is to increase the ring capacity by allowing a larger
effective ring size whereby the ring size dictates the number of
requests that may be outstanding, rather than the size of those
requests.

This should be most effective in the case of block I/O where we can
potentially benefit by concurrently dispatching a large number of
large requests. Even in the simple case of single segment block
requests, this results in a threefold increase in ring capacity.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:39 +09:30
Rusty Russell
9499f5e7ed virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.
Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-12 22:16:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
87c7d57c17 virtio: hand virtio ring alignment as argument to vring_new_virtqueue
This allows each virtio user to hand in the alignment appropriate to
their virtio_ring structures.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-30 09:26:03 +10:30
Rusty Russell
5f0d1d7f22 virtio: rename 'pagesize' arg to vring_init/vring_size
It's really the alignment desired for consumer/producer separation;
historically this x86 pagesize, but with PowerPC it'll still be x86
pagesize.  And in theory lguest could choose a different value.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30 09:25:57 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e34f872567 virtio: Add transport feature handling stub for virtio_ring.
To prepare for virtio_ring transport feature bits, hook in a call in
all the users to manipulate them.  This currently just clears all the
bits, since it doesn't understand any features.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:14 +10:00
Rusty Russell
426e3e0af5 virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage
The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization,
to say "no need to kick me when you add things".  Make it clear that
this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when
the ring is full.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:00 +11:00
Anthony Liguori
3309daaad7 virtio: Fix vring_init/vring_size to take unsigned long
Using unsigned int resulted in silent truncation of the upper 32-bit
on x86_64 resulting in an OOPS since the ring was being initialized
wrong.

Please reconsider my previous patch to just use PAGE_ALIGN().  Open
coding this sort of stuff, no matter how simple it seems, is just
asking for this sort of trouble.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:59 +11:00
Rusty Russell
18445c4d50 virtio: explicit enable_cb/disable_cb rather than callback return.
It seems that virtio_net wants to disable callbacks (interrupts) before
calling netif_rx_schedule(), so we can't use the return value to do so.

Rename "restart" to "cb_enable" and introduce "cb_disable" hook: callback
now returns void, rather than a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:58 +11:00
Rusty Russell
42b36cc0ce virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:40 +11:00
Anthony Liguori
44332f7167 virtio: fix vring_init for 64 bits
This patch fixes a typo in vring_init().  This happens to work today in lguest
because the sizeof(struct vring_desc) is 16 and struct vring contains 3
pointers and an unsigned int so on 32-bit
sizeof(struct vring_desc) == sizeof(struct vring).  However, this is no longer
true on 64-bit where the bug is exposed.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:55:12 +11:00
Rusty Russell
0a8a69dd77 Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation
These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
which want to use a ring for virtio.  Unlike the previous lguest
implementation:

1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements).
2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element.
3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
4) They no longer place used[] on a separate page, just a separate
   cacheline.
5) We do a modulo on a variable.  We could be tricky if we cared.
6) Interrupts and notifies are suppressed using flags within the rings.

Users need only get the ring pages and provide a notify hook (KVM
wants the guest to allocate the rings, lguest does it sanely).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00