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Hello, This patchset is still based on Linus' tree but I'll rebase when Rusty sends out the disable multiport patches. This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of

Hello, This patchset is still based on Linus' tree but I'll rebase when Rusty sends out the disable multiport patches. This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of

Hello, This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue and enable multiport again. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of hvc_remove() as removing one such console port causes other console ports (registered with hvc) to

Hello, This series reworks the ABI to allow port discovery (only) via the control queue and enable multiport again. In addition, it adds support for non-blocking write() support, which means no spinning. This works fine with the recent patches that are on qemu-devel. Also included is removal of hvc_remove() as removing one such console port causes other console ports (registered with hvc) to

virtqueue ops were introduced in the hope that we'll have multiple implementations besides virtio_ring, but none have surfaced so far, and given that existing virtio ring is deployed in production we are likely stuck with it now, so this layer just adds complexity and overhead. Further, the need to pass vq twice to each call (as in dev->vq->vq_ops->kick(dev->vq) ) adds potential

virtqueue ops were introduced in the hope that we'll have multiple implementations besides virtio_ring, but none have surfaced so far, and given that existing virtio ring is deployed in production we are likely stuck with it now, so this layer just adds complexity and overhead. Further, the need to pass vq twice to each call (as in dev->vq->vq_ops->kick(dev->vq) ) adds potential

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Currently if VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC is enabled we will use indirect descriptors even if we have plenty of space in the ring. This means that we take a performance hit at all times due to the overhead of creating indirect descriptors. Instead, use it only after we're below a configurable offset. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c

Expose multiple char devices ("ports") for simple communication between the host userspace and guest. Sample offline usages can be: poking around in a guest to find out the file systems used, applications installed, etc. Online usages can be sharing of clipboard data between the guest and the host, sending information about logged-in users to the host, locking the screen or session when

Expose multiple char devices ("ports") for simple communication between the host userspace and guest. Sample offline usages can be: poking around in a guest to find out the file systems used, applications installed, etc. Online usages can be sharing of clipboard data between the guest and the host, sending information about logged-in users to the host, locking the screen or session when

The following changes since commit 48de8cb7847d040c8892701c1ff3c55eff1f46b4: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/linux-2.6-tip are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master Amit Shah (1): MAINTAINERS: Put the virtio-console entry in

The following changes since commit 48de8cb7847d040c8892701c1ff3c55eff1f46b4: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/linux-2.6-tip are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master Amit Shah (1): MAINTAINERS: Put the virtio-console entry in

If we're using multiport, there's no point in always creating a console port. Create the console port only if the host doesn't support multiport. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 32 +++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c

If we're using multiport, there's no point in always creating a console port. Create the console port only if the host doesn't support multiport. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah at redhat.com> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 32 +++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c

Remove wrapper functions. This makes the allocation type explicit in all callers; I used GPF_KERNEL where it seemed obvious, left it at GFP_ATOMIC otherwise. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static bool

Remove wrapper functions. This makes the allocation type explicit in all callers; I used GPF_KERNEL where it seemed obvious, left it at GFP_ATOMIC otherwise. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static bool