1. 21 1月, 2010 2 次提交
  2. 15 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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      vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server · 3a4d5c94
      Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
      What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
      the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
      Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.
      
      There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
      - uses eventfd for signalling
      - structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
        migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
      - write logging is supported (good for migration)
      - support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)
      
      common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
      can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
      Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
      me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.
      
      What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
      call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
      Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.
      
      How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
      userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
      device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
      etc.
      
      Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
      Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
      4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
      utilization.
      
      Features that I plan to look at in the future:
      - mergeable buffers
      - zero copy
      - scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use
      
      Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
      private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
      what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
      workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
      execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
      execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
      flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
      some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
      INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.
      
      (Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
      David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
      Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)
      Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3a4d5c94
  3. 21 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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      powerpc/gc/wii: Remove get_irq_desc() · 95cd34b4
      Albert Herranz 提交于
      Fix the following build failures:
      
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c: In function 'flipper_pic_map':
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/flipper-pic.c:105: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_irq_desc'
      
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c: In function 'hlwd_pic_map':
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:98: error: implicit declaration of function 'get_irq_desc'
      
      These failures are caused by the changes introduced in commit
      "powerpc: Remove get_irq_desc()". The reason these drivers were not
      updated is that they weren't merged yet.
      Signed-off-by: NAlbert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      95cd34b4
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      powerpc/gc/wii: hlwd-pic: convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock · 7ccec3e7
      Albert Herranz 提交于
      Fix the following build failures:
      
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c: In function 'hlwd_pic_irq_cascade':
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:135: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_lock' from incompatible pointer type
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:137: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_unlock' from incompatible pointer type
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:145: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_lock' from incompatible pointer type
      arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/hlwd-pic.c:149: error: passing argument 1 of 'spin_unlock' from incompatible pointer type
      
      These failures are caused by the changes introduced in commit
      "genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock". The reason this driver
      was not updated is that it wasn't merged yet.
      Signed-off-by: NAlbert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      7ccec3e7
  4. 19 12月, 2009 5 次提交
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