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2016-03-11vhost_net: basic polling supportJason Wang
This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2016-03-11vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty()Jason Wang
This patch introduces a helper which will return true if we're sure that the available ring is empty for a specific vq. When we're not sure, e.g vq access failure, return false instead. This could be used for busy polling code to exit the busy loop. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2016-03-11vhost: introduce vhost_has_work()Jason Wang
This path introduces a helper which can give a hint for whether or not there's a work queued in the work list. This could be used for busy polling code to exit the busy loop. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2016-03-02vhost: rename vhost_init_used()Greg Kurz
Looking at how callers use this, maybe we should just rename init_used to vhost_vq_init_access. The _used suffix was a hint that we access the vq used ring. But maybe what callers care about is that it must be called after access_ok. Also, this function manipulates the vq->is_le field which isn't related to the vq used ring. This patch simply renames vhost_init_used() to vhost_vq_init_access() as suggested by Michael. No behaviour change. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-10-27vhost: fix performance on LE hostsMichael S. Tsirkin
commit 2751c9882b947292fcfb084c4f604e01724af804 ("vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devices") introduced a minor regression: even with cross-endian disabled, and even on LE host, vhost_is_little_endian is checking is_le flag so there's always a branch. To fix, simply check virtio_legacy_is_little_endian first. Cc: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-16vhost: move features to coreMichael S. Tsirkin
virtio 1 and any layout are core features, move them there. This fixes vhost test. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2015-06-01vhost: cross-endian support for legacy devicesGreg Kurz
This patch brings cross-endian support to vhost when used to implement legacy virtio devices. Since it is a relatively rare situation, the feature availability is controlled by a kernel config option (not set by default). The vq->is_le boolean field is added to cache the endianness to be used for ring accesses. It defaults to native endian, as expected by legacy virtio devices. When the ring gets active, we force little endian if the device is modern. When the ring is deactivated, we revert to the native endian default. If cross-endian was compiled in, a vq->user_be boolean field is added so that userspace may request a specific endianness. This field is used to override the default when activating the ring of a legacy device. It has no effect on modern devices. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2015-06-01virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessorsGreg Kurz
The current memory accessors logic is: - little endian if little_endian - native endian (i.e. no byteswap) if !little_endian If we want to fully support cross-endian vhost, we also need to be able to convert to big endian. Instead of changing the little_endian argument to some 3-value enum, this patch changes the logic to: - little endian if little_endian - big endian if !little_endian The native endian case is handled by all users with a trivial helper. This patch doesn't change any functionality, nor it does add overhead. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2015-06-01vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helperGreg Kurz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2014-12-09vhost: remove unnecessary forward declarations in vhost.hJason Wang
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-12-09vhost: add memory access wrappersMichael S. Tsirkin
Add guest memory access wrappers to handle virtio endianness conversions. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
2014-12-09vhost: make features 64 bitMichael S. Tsirkin
We need to use bit 32 for virtio 1.0. Make vhost_has_feature bool to avoid discarding high bits. Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
2014-06-09vhost: move memory pointer to VQsMichael S. Tsirkin
commit 2ae76693b8bcabf370b981cd00c36cd41d33fabc vhost: replace rcu with mutex replaced rcu sync for memory accesses with VQ mutex locl/unlock. This is correct since all accesses are under VQ mutex, but incomplete: we still do useless rcu lock/unlock operations, someone might copy this code into some other context where this won't be right. This use of RCU is also non standard and hard to understand. Let's copy the pointer to each VQ structure, this way the access rules become straight-forward, and there's no need for RCU anymore. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2014-06-09vhost: move acked_features to VQsMichael S. Tsirkin
Refactor code to make sure features are only accessed under VQ mutex. This makes everything simpler, no need for RCU here anymore. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-12-06vhost: remove the dead branchZhi Yong Wu
Since vhost_dev_init() forever return 0, some branches are never run, therefore need to be removed. Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-11vhost: Remove custom vhost rcu usageAsias He
Now, vq->private_data is always accessed under vq mutex. No need to play the vhost rcu trick. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-07-07vhost: Make vhost a separate moduleAsias He
Currently, vhost-net and vhost-scsi are sharing the vhost core code. However, vhost-scsi shares the code by including the vhost.c file directly. Making vhost a separate module makes it is easier to share code with other vhost devices. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-06-11vhost: check owner before we overwrite ubuf_infoMichael S. Tsirkin
If device has an owner, we shouldn't touch ubuf_info since it might be in use. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-06vhost: Remove vhost_enable_zcopy in vhost.hAsias He
It is net.c specific. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-06vhost: Remove comments for hdr in vhost.hAsias He
It is supposed to be removed when hdr is moved into vhost_net_virtqueue. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-06vhost: Move VHOST_NET_FEATURES to net.cAsias He
vhost.h should not depend on device specific marcos like VHOST_NET_F_VIRTIO_NET_HDR and VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-06vhost: Export vhost_dev_set_ownerAsias He
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-01vhost: fix error handling in RESET_OWNER ioctlMichael S. Tsirkin
RESET_OWNER ioctl would leave the fd in a bad state if memory allocation failed: device is stopped but owner is not reset. Make state changes after allocating memory, such that a failed ioctl has no effect. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-01vhost: move per-vq net specific fields out to netMichael S. Tsirkin
This will remove the need for vhost scsi to pull in virtio-net.h. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-01vhost: move vhost-net zerocopy fields to net.cAsias He
On top of 'vhost: Allow device specific fields per vq', we can move device specific fields to device virt queue from vhost virt queue. Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-05-01vhost: Allow device specific fields per vqAsias He
This is useful for any device who wants device specific fields per vq. For example, tcm_vhost wants a per vq field to track requests which are in flight on the vq. Also, on top of this we can add patches to move things like ubufs from vhost.h out to net.c. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2013-01-29vhost_net: handle polling errors when setting backendJason Wang
Currently, the polling errors were ignored, which can lead following issues: - vhost remove itself unconditionally from waitqueue when stopping the poll, this may crash the kernel since the previous attempt of starting may fail to add itself to the waitqueue - userspace may think the backend were successfully set even when the polling failed. Solve this by: - check poll->wqh before trying to remove from waitqueue - report polling errors in vhost_poll_start(), tx_poll_start(), the return value will be checked and returned when userspace want to set the backend After this fix, there still could be a polling failure after backend is set, it will addressed by the next patch. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-06vhost: avoid backend flush on vring opsMichael S. Tsirkin
vring changes already do a flush internally where appropriate, so we do not need a second flush. It's currently not very expensive but a follow-up patch makes flush more heavy-weight, so remove the extra flush here to avoid regressing performance if call or kick fds are changed on data path. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-11-02vhost: move -net specific code outMichael S. Tsirkin
Zerocopy handling code is vhost-net specific. Move it from vhost.c/vhost.h out to net.c Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02vhost: track zero copy failures using DMA lengthMichael S. Tsirkin
This will be used to disable zerocopy when error rate is high. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02vhost-net: cleanup macros for DMA status trackingMichael S. Tsirkin
Better document macros for DMA tracking. Add an explicit one for DMA in progress instead of relying on user supplying len != 1. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-02skb: report completion status for zero copy skbsMichael S. Tsirkin
Even if skb is marked for zero copy, net core might still decide to copy it later which is somewhat slower than a copy in user context: besides copying the data we need to pin/unpin the pages. Add a parameter reporting such cases through zero copy callback: if this happens a lot, device can take this into account and switch to copying in user context. This patch updates all users but ignores the passed value for now: it will be used by follow-up patches. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-22vhost: make vhost work queue visibleStefan Hajnoczi
The vhost work queue allows processing to be done in vhost worker thread context, which uses the owner process mm. Access to the vring and guest memory is typically only possible from vhost worker context so it is useful to allow work to be queued directly by users. Currently vhost_net only uses the poll wrappers which do not expose the work queue functions. However, for tcm_vhost (vhost_scsi) it will be necessary to queue custom work. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-07-22vhost: Separate vhost-net features from vhost featuresStefan Hajnoczi
In order for other vhost devices to use the VHOST_FEATURES bits the vhost-net specific bits need to be moved to their own VHOST_NET_FEATURES constant. (Asias: Update drivers/vhost/test.c to use VHOST_NET_FEATURES) Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Asias He <asias@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2012-04-13skbuff: struct ubuf_info callback type safetyMichael S. Tsirkin
The skb struct ubuf_info callback gets passed struct ubuf_info itself, not the arg value as the field name and the function signature seem to imply. Rename the arg field to ctx to match usage, add documentation and change the callback argument type to make usage clear and to have compiler check correctness. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-28vhost: fix release path lockdep checksMichael S. Tsirkin
We shouldn't hold any locks on release path. Pass a flag to vhost_dev_cleanup to use the lockdep info correctly. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-19vhost: init used ring after backend was setJason Wang
Move the used ring initialization after backend was set. This makes it possible to disable the backend and tweak the used ring, then restart. This will also make it possible to log the used ring write correctly. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2011-07-18vhost: vhost TX zero-copy supportMichael S. Tsirkin
>From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com> This adds experimental zero copy support in vhost-net, disabled by default. To enable, set experimental_zcopytx module option to 1. This patch maintains the outstanding userspace buffers in the sequence it is delivered to vhost. The outstanding userspace buffers will be marked as done once the lower device buffers DMA has finished. This is monitored through last reference of kfree_skb callback. Two buffer indices are used for this purpose. The vhost-net device passes the userspace buffers info to lower device skb through message control. DMA done status check and guest notification are handled by handle_tx: in the worst case is all buffers in the vq are in pending/done status, so we need to notify guest to release DMA done buffers first before we get any new buffers from the vq. One known problem is that if the guest stops submitting buffers, buffers might never get used until some further action, e.g. device reset. This does not seem to affect linux guests. Signed-off-by: Shirley <xma@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-30vhost: support event indexMichael S. Tsirkin
Support the new event index feature. When acked, utilize it to reduce the # of interrupts sent to the guest. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-02-01vhost: rcu annotation fixupMichael S. Tsirkin
When built with rcu checks enabled, vhost triggers bogus warnings as vhost features are read without dev->mutex sometimes, and private pointer is read with our kind of rcu where work serves as a read side critical section. Fixing it properly is not trivial. Disable the warnings by stubbing out the checks for now. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09vhost: fix typos in commentJason Wang
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-10-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1699 commits) bnx2/bnx2x: Unsupported Ethtool operations should return -EINVAL. vlan: Calling vlan_hwaccel_do_receive() is always valid. tproxy: use the interface primary IP address as a default value for --on-ip tproxy: added IPv6 support to the socket match cxgb3: function namespace cleanup tproxy: added IPv6 support to the TPROXY target tproxy: added IPv6 socket lookup function to nf_tproxy_core be2net: Changes to use only priority codes allowed by f/w tproxy: allow non-local binds of IPv6 sockets if IP_TRANSPARENT is enabled tproxy: added tproxy sockopt interface in the IPV6 layer tproxy: added udp6_lib_lookup function tproxy: added const specifiers to udp lookup functions tproxy: split off ipv6 defragmentation to a separate module l2tp: small cleanup nf_nat: restrict ICMP translation for embedded header can: mcp251x: fix generation of error frames can: mcp251x: fix endless loop in interrupt handler if CANINTF_MERRF is set can-raw: add msg_flags to distinguish local traffic 9p: client code cleanup rds: make local functions/variables static ... Fix up conflicts in net/core/dev.c, drivers/net/pcmcia/smc91c92_cs.c and drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c as per David
2010-10-05vhost: max s/g to match qemuJason Wang
Qemu supports up to UIO_MAXIOV s/g so we have to match that because guest drivers may rely on this. Allocate indirect and log arrays dynamically to avoid using too much contigious memory and make the length of hdr array to match the header length since each iovec entry has a least one byte. Test with copying large files w/ and w/o migration in both linux and windows guests. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-08-21vhost: add __rcu annotationsArnd Bergmann
Also add rcu_dereference_protected() for code paths where locks are held. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-28vhost-net: mergeable buffers supportDavid Stevens
This adds support for mergeable buffers in vhost-net: this is needed for older guests without indirect buffer support, as well as for zero copy with some devices. Includes changes by Michael S. Tsirkin to make the patch as low risk as possible (i.e., close to no changes when feature is disabled). Signed-off-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-28vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthreadTejun Heo
Replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread. Other than callback argument change from struct work_struct * to struct vhost_work *, there's no visible change to vhost_poll_*() interface. This conversion is to make each vhost use a dedicated kthread so that resource control via cgroup can be applied. Partially based on Sridhar Samudrala's patch. * Updated to use sub structure vhost_work instead of directly using vhost_poll at Michael's suggestion. * Added flusher wake_up() optimization at Michael's suggestion. Changes by MST: * Converted atomics/barrier use to a spinlock. * Create thread on SET_OWNER * Fix flushing Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com>
2010-06-27vhost: break out of polling loop on errorMichael S. Tsirkin
When ring parsing fails, we currently handle this as ring empty condition. This means that we enable kicks and recheck ring empty: if this not empty, we re-start polling which of course will fail again. Instead, let's return a negative error code and stop polling. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-01-15vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio serverMichael S. Tsirkin
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: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>