From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:48:46 +0300
>>From: Shirley Ma <mashi...@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 <x...@us.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Applied, thanks! _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
