similar to: [PATCHv5 3/3] 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) - support memory

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) - support memory

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) - support memory

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) - support memory

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

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

This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could be used with for co-operation with userspace(qemu) implementation of iommu for a secure DMA environment (DMAR) in guest. The idea is simple. When vhost meets an IOTLB miss, it will request the assistance of userspace to do the translation, this is done through: - Fill the translation request in a preset userspace address (This

This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could be used with for co-operation with userspace(qemu) implementation of iommu for a secure DMA environment (DMAR) in guest. The idea is simple. When vhost meets an IOTLB miss, it will request the assistance of userspace to do the translation, this is done through: - Fill the translation request in a preset userspace address (This

This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could be used with for co-operation with userspace(qemu) implementation of iommu for a secure DMA environment in guest. The idea is simple. When vhost meets an IOTLB miss, it will request the assistance of userspace to do the translation, this is done through: - Fill the translation request in a preset userspace address (This

This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could be used with for co-operation with userspace(qemu) implementation of iommu for a secure DMA environment in guest. The idea is simple. When vhost meets an IOTLB miss, it will request the assistance of userspace to do the translation, this is done through: - Fill the translation request in a preset userspace address (This

This is an update version of last version to fix the handling of polling errors in vhost/vhost_net. Currently, vhost and vhost_net ignore polling errors which can lead kernel crashing when it tries to remove itself from waitqueue after the polling failure. Fix this by checking the poll->wqh before the removing and report an error when meet polling errors. Changes from v2: - check poll->wqh

This is an update version of last version to fix the handling of polling errors in vhost/vhost_net. Currently, vhost and vhost_net ignore polling errors which can lead kernel crashing when it tries to remove itself from waitqueue after the polling failure. Fix this by checking the poll->wqh before the removing and report an error when meet polling errors. Changes from v2: - check poll->wqh

Hi: This series tries to optimize vhost_net polling at two points: - Stop rx polling for reduicng the unnecessary wakeups during handle_rx(). - Conditonally enable tx polling for reducing the unnecessary traversing and spinlock touching. Test shows about 17% improvement on rx pps. Please review Changes from V2: - Don't enable rx vq if we meet an err or rx vq is empty Changes from V1:

Hi: This series tries to optimize vhost_net polling at two points: - Stop rx polling for reduicng the unnecessary wakeups during handle_rx(). - Conditonally enable tx polling for reducing the unnecessary traversing and spinlock touching. Test shows about 17% improvement on rx pps. Please review Changes from V2: - Don't enable rx vq if we meet an err or rx vq is empty Changes from V1:

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

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

Hi all: This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is simple: at the end of tx/rx processing, busy polling for new tx added descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified ioctl. Test were done through: - 50 us as busy loop timeout - Netperf 2.6 - Two machines with back to back connected ixgbe

Hi all: This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is simple: at the end of tx/rx processing, busy polling for new tx added descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified ioctl. Test were done through: - 50 us as busy loop timeout - Netperf 2.6 - Two machines with back to back connected ixgbe

This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is simple: at the end of tx/rx processing, busy polling for new tx added descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified ioctl. Test A were done through: - 50 us as busy loop timeout - Netperf 2.6 - Two machines with back to back connected mlx4 - Guest

This series tries to add basic busy polling for vhost net. The idea is simple: at the end of tx/rx processing, busy polling for new tx added descriptor and rx receive socket for a while. The maximum number of time (in us) could be spent on busy polling was specified ioctl. Test A were done through: - 50 us as busy loop timeout - Netperf 2.6 - Two machines with back to back connected mlx4 - Guest