1. 04 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 23 10月, 2007 2 次提交
    • R
      Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation · 0a8a69dd
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      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: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
      0a8a69dd
    • R
      Virtio interface · ec3d41c4
      Rusty Russell 提交于
      This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow
      common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O
      mechanisms.  It will no-doubt need further enhancement.
      
      The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed
      the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked.
      
      There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query
      to get setup information from the host.
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      ec3d41c4