This patch fixes configure so that the netmap backend is not compiled in if the
host doesn't support an API version >= 11. A version upper bound (15) has been
added so that the netmap API can be extended with some minor features without
requiring QEMU code modifications.
Moreover, some changes have been done to net/netmap.c in order to reflect the
current netmap API/ABI (11).
The NETMAP_WITH_LIBS macro makes possible to include some utilities (e.g.
netmap ring macros, D(), RD() and other high level functions) through the netmap
headers. In this way we get rid of the D and RD macro definitions in the QEMU
code, and we open the way for further code simplifications that will be
introduced by future patches.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Whit this patch, the netmap backend supports TSO/UFO/CSUM
offloadings, and accepts the virtio-net header, similarly to what
happens with TAP. The offloading callbacks in the NetClientInfo
interface have been implemented.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Since TAP offloadings are manipulated through a new API, it's
not necessary to export them in include/net/tap.h anymore.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
With this patch, virtio-net and vmxnet3 frontends make
use of the qemu_peer_* API for backend offloadings manipulations,
instead of calling TAP-specific functions directly.
We also remove the existing checks which prevent those frontends
from using offloadings with backends different from TAP (e.g. netmap).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The TAP NetClientInfo structure is inizialized with the TAP-specific
functions that manipulates offloading features.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Some new callbacks have been added to generalize the operations done
by virtio-net and vmxnet3 frontends to manipulate TAP offloadings.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The tap_has_vnet_hdr() and tap_has_vnet_hdr_len() functions used
to return int, even though they only return true/false values.
This patch changes the prototypes to return bool.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap.
netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it
to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software
switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch
VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines.
netmap and VALE are implemented as a non-intrusive kernel module,
support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD
distributions and available in source format for Linux too.
To compile QEMU with netmap support, use the following configure
options:
./configure [...] --enable-netmap --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys
where "/path/to/netmap" contains the netmap source code, available at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
The same webpage contains more information about the netmap project
(together with papers and presentations).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch implements the NetClientInfo.receive_iov method for the
e1000 device emulation. In this way a network backend that uses
qemu_sendv_packet() can deliver the fragmented packet without
requiring an additional copy in the frontend/backend network code
(nc_sendv_compat() function).
The existing method NetClientInfo.receive has been reimplemented
using the new method.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch partially implements the e1000 interrupt mitigation mechanisms.
Using a single QEMUTimer, it emulates the ITR register (which is the newer
mitigation register, recommended by Intel) and approximately emulates
RADV and TADV registers. TIDV and RDTR register functionalities are not
emulated (RDTR is only used to validate RADV, according to the e1000 specs).
RADV, TADV, TIDV and RDTR registers make up the older e1000 mitigation
mechanism and would need a timer each to be completely emulated. However,
a single timer has been used in order to reach a good compromise between
emulation accuracy and simplicity/efficiency.
The implemented mechanism can be enabled/disabled specifying the command
line e1000-specific boolean parameter "mitigation", e.g.
qemu-system-x86_64 -device e1000,mitigation=on,... ...
For more information, see the Software developer's manual at
http://download.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8254x_GBe_SDM.pdf.
Interrupt mitigation boosts performance when the guest suffers from
an high interrupt rate (i.e. receiving short UDP packets at high packet
rate). For some numerical results see the following link
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20130520-rizzo-vm.pdf
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> (for pc-* machines)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Added an EventNotifier* parameter to
kvm-all.c:kvm_irqchip_add_irqfd_notifier(), in order to give KVM
another eventfd to be used as "resamplefd". See the documentation
in the linux kernel sources in Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
(section 4.75) for more details.
When the added parameter is passed NULL, the behaviour of the
function is unchanged with respect to the previous versions.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Vincenzo Maffione