As all virtio devices perform DMA, we
must enable bus mastering for them to be
spec compliant.
This patch fixes hotplug of virtio devices
with Linux guests and qemu 0.11-0.12.
Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
I have observed the following error on virtio-net module unload:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/irq/manage.c:858 __free_irq+0xa0/0x14c()
Hardware name: Bochs
Trying to free already-free IRQ 0
Modules linked in: virtio_net(-) virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_ring
virtio af_packet e1000 shpchp aacraid uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last
unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 1957, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.33-rc8-vhost #24
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8103e195>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94
[<ffffffff8103e204>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
[<ffffffff810a7a36>] ? __free_pages+0x5a/0x70
[<ffffffff8107cc00>] __free_irq+0xa0/0x14c
[<ffffffff8107cceb>] free_irq+0x3f/0x65
[<ffffffffa0081424>] vp_del_vqs+0x81/0xb1 [virtio_pci]
[<ffffffffa0091d29>] virtnet_remove+0xda/0x10b [virtio_net]
[<ffffffffa0075200>] virtio_dev_remove+0x22/0x4a [virtio]
[<ffffffff812709ee>] __device_release_driver+0x66/0xac
[<ffffffff81270ab7>] driver_detach+0x83/0xa9
[<ffffffff8126fc66>] bus_remove_driver+0x91/0xb4
[<ffffffff81270fcf>] driver_unregister+0x6c/0x74
[<ffffffffa0075418>] unregister_virtio_driver+0xe/0x10 [virtio]
[<ffffffffa0091c4d>] fini+0x15/0x17 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff8106997b>] sys_delete_module+0x1c3/0x230
[<ffffffff81007465>] ? old_ich_force_enable_hpet+0x117/0x164
[<ffffffff813bb720>] ? do_page_fault+0x29c/0x2cc
[<ffffffff81028e58>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x27
---[ end trace 15e88e4c576cc62b ]---
The bug is in virtio-pci: we use msix_vector as array index to get irq
entry, but some vqs do not have a dedicated vector so this causes an out
of bounds access. By chance, we seem to often get 0 value, which
results in this error.
Fix by verifying that vector is legal before using it as index.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
vq operations depend on vq->data[i] being NULL to figure out if the vq
entry is in use (since the previous patch).
We have to initialize them to NULL to ensure we don't work with junk
data and trigger false BUG_ONs.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
add a new hook to do this.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
virtio is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on
another host processor. Thus SMP barriers can be used to control
memory access ordering.
Where possible, we should use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than
mandatory barriers, because mandatory barriers also control MMIO effects on
accesses through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use)
(compare specifically smp_rmb and rmb on x86_64).
We can't just use smp_mb and friends though, because
we must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be
running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in
that configuration. So, for UP fall back to mandatory barriers instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
With DEBUG defined, we add an ->in_use flag to detect if the caller
invokes two virtio methods in parallel. The barriers attempt to ensure
timely update of the ->in_use flag.
But they're voodoo: if we need these barriers it implies that the
calling code doesn't have sufficient synchronization to ensure the
code paths aren't invoked at the same time anyway, and we want to
detect it.
Also, adding barriers changes timing, so turning on debug has more
chance of hiding real problems.
Thanks to MST for drawing my attention to this code...
CC: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a fix for my earlier patch: "virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to
the balloon driver (V4)".
I discovered that all_vm_events() can sleep and therefore stats collection
cannot be done in interrupt context. One solution is to handle the interrupt
by noting that stats need to be collected and waking the existing vballoon
kthread which will complete the work via stats_handle_request(). Rusty, is
this a saner way of doing business?
There is one issue that I would like a broader opinion on. In stats_request, I
update vb->need_stats_update and then wake up the kthread. The kthread uses
vb->need_stats_update as a condition variable. Do I need a memory barrier
between the update and wake_up to ensure that my kthread sees the correct
value? My testing suggests that it is not needed but I would like some
confirmation from the experts.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changes since V3:
- Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host
- Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes
- Minor coding style updates
Changes since V2:
- Increase stat field size to 64 bits
- Report all sizes in kb (not pages)
- Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion
Changes since V1:
- Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space
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.
This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and
reporting to the virtio balloon driver.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)
This is needed to compile with CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y,
because virtio_pci_remove is marked __devexit.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fix fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures to be
suffixed with _driver.
WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove()
WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove()
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass used index reads. This
causes guest crashes because host writes to used index to signal ring
data readiness. Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Commit f68d24082e
in 2.6.32-rc1 broke requesting IRQs for per-VQ MSI-X vectors:
- vector number was used instead of the vector itself
- we try to request an IRQ for VQ which does not
have a callback handler
This is a regression that causes warnings in kernel log,
potentially lower performance as we need to scan vq list,
and might cause system failure if the interrupt
requested is in fact needed by another system.
This was not noticed earlier because in most cases
we were falling back on shared interrupt for all vqs.
The warnings often look like this:
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 1
current handler: i8042
Pid: 2400, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W
2.6.32-rc3-11952-gf3ed8d8-dirty #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81072aed>] ? __setup_irq+0x299/0x304
[<ffffffff81072ff3>] ? request_threaded_irq+0x144/0x1c1
[<ffffffff813455af>] ? vring_interrupt+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff81346598>] ? vp_try_to_find_vqs+0x583/0x5c7
[<ffffffffa0015188>] ? skb_recv_done+0x0/0x34 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff81346609>] ? vp_find_vqs+0x2d/0x83
[<ffffffff81345d00>] ? vp_get+0x3c/0x4e
[<ffffffffa0016373>] ? virtnet_probe+0x2f1/0x428 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffffa0015188>] ? skb_recv_done+0x0/0x34 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffffa00150d8>] ? skb_xmit_done+0x0/0x39 [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff8110ab92>] ? sysfs_do_create_link+0xcb/0x116
[<ffffffff81345cc2>] ? vp_get_status+0x14/0x16
[<ffffffff81345464>] ? virtio_dev_probe+0xa9/0xc8
[<ffffffff8122b11c>] ? driver_probe_device+0x8d/0x128
[<ffffffff8122b206>] ? __driver_attach+0x4f/0x6f
[<ffffffff8122b1b7>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x6f
[<ffffffff8122a9f9>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x43/0x74
[<ffffffff8122a374>] ? bus_add_driver+0xea/0x22d
[<ffffffff8122b4a3>] ? driver_register+0xa7/0x111
[<ffffffffa001a000>] ? init+0x0/0xc [virtio_net]
[<ffffffff81009051>] ? do_one_initcall+0x50/0x148
[<ffffffff8106e117>] ? sys_init_module+0xc5/0x21a
[<ffffffff8100af02>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
virtio-pci 0000:00:03.0: irq 27 for MSI/MSI-X
Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The function virtballoon_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so
define it using __devexit.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty,
commit 3ca4f5ca73
virtio: add virtio IDs file
moved all device IDs into a single file. While the change itself is
a very good one, it can break userspace applications. For example
if a userspace tool wanted to get the ID of virtio_net it used to
include virtio_net.h. This does no longer work, since virtio_net.h
does not include virtio_ids.h.
This patch moves all "#include <linux/virtio_ids.h>" from the C
files into the header files, making the header files compatible with
the old ones.
In addition, this patch exports virtio_ids.h to userspace.
CC: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs
bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity
remains for buffers. It's necessarily fuzzy, since
VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors
in one, *if* we can kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
1) Rename vp_request_vectors to vp_request_msix_vectors, and take
non-MSI-X case out to caller.
2) Comment weird pci_enable_msix API
3) Rename vp_find_vq to setup_vq.
4) Fix spaces to tabs
5) Make nvectors calc internal to vp_try_to_find_vqs()
6) Rename vector to msix_vector for more clarity.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
This refactors find_vqs, making it more readable and robust, and fixing
two regressions from 2.6.30:
- double free_irq causing BUG_ON on device removal
- probe failure when vq can't be assigned to msi-x vector
(reported on old host kernels)
Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This makes delete vq the reverse of find vq.
This is required to make it possible to retry find_vqs
after a failure, otherwise the list gets corrupted.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Make vp_free_vectors do the reverse of vq_request_vectors.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
If pci_register_driver() fails we're incorrectly unregistering the root
device with device_unregister() rather than root_device_unregister().
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch allows a virtio driver to use VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the
device id. This will be used by a test module that can be bound to
any virtio device.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This bug never appeared, since all current virtio drivers use
VIRTIO_DEV_ANY_ID for the vendor field. If a real vendor would be used,
the check in virtio_id_match is wrong - it returns 0 if
id->vendor == dev->id.vendor.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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>
This implements optional MSI-X support in virtio_pci.
MSI-X is used whenever the host supports at least 2 MSI-X
vectors: 1 for configuration changes and 1 for virtqueues.
Per-virtqueue vectors are allocated if enough vectors
available.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ whitespace, style)
This reorganizes virtio-pci code in vp_interrupt slightly, so that
it's easier to add per-vq MSI support on top.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations,
and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI
needs to know the total number of vectors upfront.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ lguest/9p compile fixes)
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>
Virtio devices are supposed to negotiate features before they start using
the device, but the current code doesn't do this. This is because the
driver's probe() function invariably has to add buffers to a virtqueue,
or probe the disk (virtio_blk).
This currently doesn't matter since no existing backend is strict about
the feature negotiation. But it's possible to imagine a future feature
which completely changes how a device operates: in this case, we'd need
to acknowledge it before using the device.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Break out of wait_event_interruptible() if freezing has been requested,
in the vballoon thread. Without this change vballoon refuses to stop and
the system can't suspend.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Impact: cleanup
Roel Kluin drew attention to these macros with his patch: here I
neaten them a little further:
1) Add a comment on what START_USE and END_USE are checking,
2) Brackets around _vq in BAD_RING,
3) Neaten formatting for START_USE so it's less than 80 cols.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: cleanup
fix BAD_RING, START_US and END_USE macros
When these macros aren't called with a variable named vq as first
argument, this would result in a build failure.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The host really shouldn't be notifying us of config changes
before the device status is VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER or
VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.
However, if we do happen to be interrupted while we're not
attached to a driver, we really shouldn't oops. Prevent
this simply by checking that device->driver is non-NULL
before trying to notify the driver of config changes.
Problem observed by doing a "set_link virtio.0 down" with
QEMU before the net driver had been loaded.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We shouldn't be statically allocating the root device object,
so dynamically allocate it using root_device_register()
instead.
Also avoids this warning from 'rmmod virtio_pci':
Device 'virtio-pci' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add a release() function for virtio_pci devices so as to avoid:
Device 'virtio0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed
Move the code to free the resources associated with the device
from virtio_pci_remove() into this new function. virtio_pci_remove()
now merely unregisters the device which should cause the final
ref to be dropped and virtio_pci_release_dev() to be called.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Make the balloon interface always use 4K pages, and convert Linux pfns if
necessary. This patch assumes that Linux's PAGE_SHIFT will never be less than
12.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (modified)
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>
The virtio PCI devices don't depend on the guest page size. This matters
now PowerPC virtio is gaining ground (they like 64k pages).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove
the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device
name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size
limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device".
To set and read the device name dev_name(dev) and dev_set_name(dev)
must be used. If your code uses static kobjects, which it shouldn't
do, "const char *init_name" can be used to statically provide the
name the registered device should have. At registration time, the
init_name field is cleared, to enforce the use of dev_name(dev) to
access the device name at a later time.
We need to get rid of all occurrences of bus_id in the entire tree
to be able to enable the new interface. Please apply this patch,
and possibly convert any remaining remaining occurrences of bus_id.
We want to submit a patch to -next, which will remove bus_id from
"struct device", to find the remaining pieces to convert, and finally
switch over to the new api, which will remove the 20 bytes array
and does no longer have a size limitation.
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
kzalloc() does not guarantee page alignment, and in fact this broke when
I enabled CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON.
(Thanks to Anthony Liguori for spotting the missing kfree sub)
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (fixed kfree)
Tested-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Both v and vb->num_pages are u32 and unsigned int respectively. If v is less
than vb->num_pages (and it is, when deflating the balloon), the result is a
very large 32-bit number. Since we're returning a s64, instead of getting the
same negative number we desire, we get a very large positive number.
This handles the case where v < vb->num_pages and ensures we get a small,
negative, s64 as the result.
Rusty: please push this for 2.6.27-rc4. It's probably appropriate for the
stable tree too as it will cause an unexpected OOM when ballooning.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (simplified)
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>
Rather than explicitly handing the features to the lower-level, we just
hand the virtio_device and have it set the features. This make it clear
that it has the chance to manipulate the features of the device at this
point (and that all feature negotiation is already done).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We assign feature bits as required, but it makes sense to reserve some
for the particular transport, rather than the particular device.
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>
lguest (in rusty's use-tun-ringfd patch) assumes that the
guest has updated its feature bits before setting its status
to VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.
That's pretty reasonable, so let's make it so.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael S. Tsirkin