Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause
trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size
(like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a dasd).
Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector
size than 512 byte.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Hook up to the probe() and remove() methods in bus_type
rather than device_driver. The latter has been preferred
since 2.6.16.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We force notification when the ring is full, even if the host has
indicated it doesn't want to know. This seemed like a good idea at
the time: if we fill the transmit ring, we should tell the host
immediately.
Unfortunately this logic also applies to the receiving ring, which is
refilled constantly. We should introduce real notification thesholds
to replace this logic. Meanwhile, removing the logic altogether breaks
the heuristics which KVM uses, so we use a hack: only notify if there are
outgoing parts of the new buffer.
Here are the number of exits with lguest's crappy network implementation:
Before:
network xmit 7859051 recv 236420
After:
network xmit 7858610 recv 118136
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
If we hack the virtio_net driver to always allocate full-sized (64k+)
skbuffs, the driver slows down (lguest numbers):
Time to receive 1GB (small buffers): 10.85 seconds
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers): 24.75 seconds
Of course, large buffers use up more space in the ring, so we increase
that from 128 to 2048:
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring): 16.61 seconds
If we recycle pages rather than using alloc_page/free_page:
Time to receive 1GB (64k+ buffers, 2k ring, recycle pages): 10.81 seconds
This demonstrates that with efficient allocation, we don't need to
have a separate "small buffer" queue.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Finally this patch lets virtio_net receive GSO packets in addition
to sending them. This can definitely be optimised for the non-GSO
case. For comparison the Xen approach stores one page in each skb
and uses subsequent skb's pages to construct an SG skb instead of
preallocating the maximum amount of pages per skb.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (added feature bits)
This patch adds some basic ethtool operations to virtio_net so
I could test SG without GSO (which was really useful because TSO
turned out to be buggy :)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (remove MTU setting)
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 17:42 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> If we fail to transmit a packet, we assume the queue is full and put
> the skb into last_xmit_skb. However, if more space frees up before we
> xmit it, we loop, and the result can be transmitting the same skb twice.
>
> Fix is simple: set skb to NULL if we've used it in some way, and check
> before sending.
...
> diff -r 564237b31993 drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c Mon May 19 12:22:00 2008 +1000
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c Mon May 19 12:24:58 2008 +1000
> @@ -287,21 +287,25 @@ again:
> free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
>
> /* If we has a buffer left over from last time, send it now. */
> - if (vi->last_xmit_skb) {
> + if (unlikely(vi->last_xmit_skb)) {
> if (xmit_skb(vi, vi->last_xmit_skb) != 0) {
> /* Drop this skb: we only queue one. */
> vi->dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
> kfree_skb(skb);
> + skb = NULL;
> goto stop_queue;
> }
> vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL;
With this, may drop an skb and then later in the function discover that
we could have sent it after all. Poor wee skb :)
How about the incremental patch below?
Cheers,
Mark.
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: Delay dropping tx skbs
Currently we drop the skb in start_xmit() if we have a
queued buffer and fail to transmit it.
However, if we delay dropping it until we've stopped the
queue and enabled the tx notification callback, then there
is a chance space might become available for it.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (76 commits)
ide: use proper printk() KERN_* levels in ide-probe.c
ide: fix for EATA SCSI HBA in ATA emulating mode
ide: remove stale comments from drivers/ide/Makefile
ide: enable local IRQs in all handlers for TASKFILE_NO_DATA data phase
ide-scsi: remove kmalloced struct request
ht6560b: remove old history
ht6560b: update email address
ide-cd: fix oops when using growisofs
gayle: release resources on ide_host_add() failure
palm_bk3710: add UltraDMA/100 support
ide: trivial sparse annotations
ide: ide-tape.c sparse annotations and unaligned access removal
ide: drop 'name' parameter from ->init_chipset method
ide: prefix messages from IDE PCI host drivers by driver name
it821x: remove DECLARE_ITE_DEV() macro
it8213: remove DECLARE_ITE_DEV() macro
ide: include PCI device name in messages from IDE PCI host drivers
ide: remove <asm/ide.h> for some archs
ide-generic: remove ide_default_{io_base,irq}() inlines (take 3)
ide-generic: is no longer needed on ppc32
...
* 'release-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-2.6:
acpi: fix crash in core ACPI code, triggered by CONFIG_ACPI_PCI_SLOT=y
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: don't misdetect in get_thinkpad_model_data() on -ENOMEM
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.21
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add bluetooth and WWAN rfkill support
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: WLSW overrides other rfkill switches
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: prepare for bluetooth and wwan rfkill support
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: consolidate wlsw notification function
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: minor refactor on radio switch init
Revert "ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled"
Revert "dock: bay: Don't call acpi_walk_namespace() when ACPI is disabled."
Revert "Fix FADT parsing"
ACPI : Set FAN device to correct state in boot phase
ACPI: Ignore _BQC object when registering backlight device
ACPI: stop complaints about interrupt link End Tags and blank IRQ descriptors
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fixup sparse endianness warnings in proc.c
PCI PM: make more PCI PM core functionality available to drivers
PCI/DMAR: don't assume presence of RMRRs
PCI hotplug: fix error path in pci_slot's register_slot
IDE probing code used to skip devices attached to EATA SCSI HBA
in ATA emulating mode but because of warm-plug support port I/O
resources are no longer freed if no devices are detected on a port
and the decision about the driver to use is left up to the user.
Remove no longer valid EATA SCSI HBA quirk from do_identify().
Noticed-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
It is already done by task_no_data_intr() and there is no reason
not to do it in other TASKFILE_NO_DATA data phase handlers.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
This converts ide-scsi to use blk_get/put_request instead of
kmalloc/kfree.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Remove the ancient version history. Git does a better job.
From: Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@caiway.nl>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
cdrom_read_capacity() will blindly return the capacity from the device
without sanity-checking it. This later causes code in fs/buffer.c to
oops.
Fix this by checking that the device is telling us sensible things.
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[bart: print device name instead of driver name]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
[harvey: blocklen is a big-endian value]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
"gayle: reserve memory resources at once" patch temporary removed
freeing of resources on failure (to ease convertion to ide_host_add()
interface). This patch fixes it.
Thanks to Geert for noticing the issue.
Noticed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
This controller supports UltraDMA up to mode 5 but it should be clocked with
at least twice the data strobe frequency, so enable mode 5 for 100+ MHz IDECLK.
While at it, start passing the correct device to clk_get() -- it worked anyway
but WTF? :-/
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
If this is actually unaligned the access of speed/max_speed above
is already broken and needs a get_unaligned. Otherwise it is
aligned and they can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
While at it:
* it821x_chipsets[] -> it821x_chipset.
* Fix it821x_chipset's name field (as it is used for IT8211/8212).
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
While at it:
* Apply small fixes to messages (s/dma/DMA/, remove trailing '.', etc).
* Fix printk() call in ide_setup_pci_baseregs() to use KERN_INFO.
* Move printk() call from ide_pci_clear_simplex() to the caller.
* Cleanup do_ide_setup_pci_device() a bit.
* amd74xx.c: remove superfluous PCI device revision information.
* hpt366.c: fix two printk() calls in ->init_chipset to use KERN_INFO.
* pdc202xx_new.c: fix printk() call in ->init_chipset to use KERN_INFO.
* pdc202xx_old.c: fix driver message in pdc202xx_init_one().
* via82cxxx.c: fix driver warning message in via_init_one().
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Replace ide_default_{io_base,irq}() inlines by legacy_{bases,irqs}[].
v2:
Add missing zero-ing of hws[] (caught during testing by Borislav Petkov).
v3:
Fix zero-oing of hws[] for _real_ this time.
There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Move ide_probe_legacy() call to ide_generic_init() so it fails
early if necessary and returns the proper error value (nowadays
ide_default_io_base() is used only by ide-generic).
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Christian Borntraeger