Mostly the new experimental vhost driver.
The following changes since commit b8a7f3cd7e8212e5c572178ff3b5a514861036a5:
Linus Torvalds (1):
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../viro/vfs-2.6
are available in the git repository at:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git
virtio-lguest
Adam Litke (2):
virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)
virtio: Fix scheduling while atomic in virtio_balloon stats
Michael S. Tsirkin (4):
tun: export underlying socket
mm: export use_mm/unuse_mm to modules
vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
vhost: add missing architectures
Rusty Russell (1):
lguest: remove unneeded zlib.h include in example launcher
Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 1 -
MAINTAINERS | 9 +
arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/net/tun.c | 101 ++++-
drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 11 +
drivers/vhost/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/vhost/net.c | 648 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 968 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 159 +++++++
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 108 ++++-
include/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
include/linux/if_tun.h | 14 +
include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 +
include/linux/vhost.h | 130 ++++++
include/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 15 +
mm/mmu_context.c | 3 +
20 files changed, 2148 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/net.c
create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/vhost.c
create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/vhost.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/vhost.h
commit 740773dda21f343074235c63dc5bb83fa69887d4
Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Date: Wed Nov 4 17:55:02 2009 +0200
tun: export underlying socket
Tun device looks similar to a packet socket
in that both pass complete frames from/to userspace.
This patch fills in enough fields in the socket underlying tun driver
to support sendmsg/recvmsg operations, and message flags
MSG_TRUNC and MSG_DONTWAIT, and exports access to this socket
to modules. Regular read/write behaviour is unchanged.
This way, code using raw sockets to inject packets
into a physical device, can support injecting
packets into host network stack almost without modification.
First user of this interface will be vhost virtualization
accelerator.
Signed-off-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/net/tun.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
include/linux/if_tun.h | 14 +++++++
2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
commit 3f451096d762f71defd8cd5cd821b0e8aa57edf3
Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Date: Wed Nov 4 17:55:38 2009 +0200
mm: export use_mm/unuse_mm to modules
vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread,
which needs use_mm. Export it to modules.
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
mm/mmu_context.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
commit 2c1566dc10c2dcacfbc386cae49d027b8e9e87df
Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 19:22:30 2009 +0200
vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
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 at linux.intel.com>)
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
MAINTAINERS | 9 +
arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 11 +
drivers/vhost/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/vhost/net.c | 648 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 968 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 159 ++++++++
include/linux/Kbuild | 1 +
include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 +
include/linux/vhost.h | 130 ++++++
11 files changed, 1931 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
commit f085e4f06bf04d45cb7498e9cb14c2e002dd1c31
Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Date: Thu Dec 17 15:01:46 2009 +0200
vhost: add missing architectures
vhost is completely portable, but Kconfig include was missing for all
architectures besides x86, so it did not appear in the menu. Add the
relevant Kconfig includes to all architectures that support
virtualization.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
commit a8945c9bf89df5deaba16c2a65f4cf18060299c2
Author: Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Nov 30 10:14:15 2009 -0600
virtio: Add memory statistics reporting to the balloon driver (V4)
Changes since V3:
- Do not do endian conversions as they will be done in the host
- Report stats that reference a quantity of memory in bytes
- Minor coding style updates
Changes since V2:
- Increase stat field size to 64 bits
- Report all sizes in kb (not pages)
- Drop anon_pages stat and fix endianness conversion
Changes since V1:
- Use a virtqueue instead of the device config space
When using ballooning to manage overcommitted memory on a host, a system for
guests to communicate their memory usage to the host can provide information
that will minimize the impact of ballooning on the guests. The current
method
employs a daemon running in each guest that communicates memory statistics
to a
host daemon at a specified time interval. The host daemon aggregates this
information and inflates and/or deflates balloons according to the level of
host memory pressure. This approach is effective but overly complex since a
daemon must be installed inside each guest and coordinated to communicate
with
the host. A simpler approach is to collect memory statistics in the virtio
balloon driver and communicate them directly to the hypervisor.
This patch enables the guest-side support by adding stats collection and
reporting to the virtio balloon driver.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony at codemonkey.ws>
Cc: virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> (minor fixes)
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 15 ++++++
2 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
commit 417c5a603344ef72958f6813393690a2bdca030f
Author: Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu Dec 10 16:35:15 2009 -0600
virtio: Fix scheduling while atomic in virtio_balloon stats
This is a fix for my earlier patch: "virtio: Add memory statistics
reporting to
the balloon driver (V4)".
I discovered that all_vm_events() can sleep and therefore stats collection
cannot be done in interrupt context. One solution is to handle the
interrupt
by noting that stats need to be collected and waking the existing vballoon
kthread which will complete the work via stats_handle_request(). Rusty, is
this a saner way of doing business?
There is one issue that I would like a broader opinion on. In
stats_request, I
update vb->need_stats_update and then wake up the kthread. The kthread
uses
vb->need_stats_update as a condition variable. Do I need a memory
barrier
between the update and wake_up to ensure that my kthread sees the correct
value? My testing suggests that it is not needed but I would like some
confirmation from the experts.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl at us.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
commit c7ff121447eaeb96fc722016db9dce4cfa69d4fa
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri Dec 18 12:36:51 2009 -0600
lguest: remove unneeded zlib.h include in example launcher
Two years ago 5bbf89fc2608 removed the horrible bzImage unpacking code.
Now it's time to remove the unneeded zlib.h include, too.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
