similar to: [PATCH 0/2 V2] virtio-spec: dynamic network offloads configuration

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC) requires network driver to be able to enable and disable HW LRO offload on the fly without device reinitialization. Current Virtio specification doesn't support this requirement. The solution proposed by following spec patch is to add a new control command for this purpose. The same

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC) requires network driver to be able to enable and disable HW LRO offload on the fly without device reinitialization. Current Virtio specification doesn't support this requirement. The solution proposed by following spec patch is to add a new control command for this purpose. The same

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> V3 changes: 1. Compat macro added 2. Feature name beautification V2 changes: 1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names 2. Live migration logic fixed Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC) requires network driver to be able to enable and disable HW LRO offload on

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> V3 changes: 1. Compat macro added 2. Feature name beautification V2 changes: 1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names 2. Live migration logic fixed Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC) requires network driver to be able to enable and disable HW LRO offload on

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> V4 changes: 1. Feature definitions re-used for command bitmask 2. Command data made uint64 3. Commit messsages fixed Reported-by: Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au V3 changes: 1. Compat macro added 2. Feature name beautification V2 changes: 1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names 2. Live migration logic fixed

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> V4 changes: 1. Feature definitions re-used for command bitmask 2. Command data made uint64 3. Commit messsages fixed Reported-by: Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au V3 changes: 1. Compat macro added 2. Feature name beautification V2 changes: 1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names 2. Live migration logic fixed

The idea of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature is to let drivers skip usage of the deflate queue when leaking the balloon ("silent deflation"). Guests may benefit from silent deflate by aggressively inflating the balloon; they know that they will be able to use ballooned pages without issuing a (blocking) request to the device. The problem is that this feature is a

The idea of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature is to let drivers skip usage of the deflate queue when leaking the balloon ("silent deflation"). Guests may benefit from silent deflate by aggressively inflating the balloon; they know that they will be able to use ballooned pages without issuing a (blocking) request to the device. The problem is that this feature is a

Hi, here's again my proposal for adapter (thin) interrupt support for virtio-ccw devices, originally posted at http://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=137060143904927&w=2 The document is unchanged, only rebased against current master. Cornelia Huck (1): virtio-ccw: Document adapter interrupts. virtio-spec.lyx | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1

Hi, here's again my proposal for adapter (thin) interrupt support for virtio-ccw devices, originally posted at http://marc.info/?l=linux-virtualization&m=137060143904927&w=2 The document is unchanged, only rebased against current master. Cornelia Huck (1): virtio-ccw: Document adapter interrupts. virtio-spec.lyx | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1

At Jason's request, I am trying to help finalize the spec for the new multiqueue feature. Changes from Jason's rfc: - reserved vq 3: this makes all rx vqs even and tx vqs odd, which looks nicer to me. - documented packet steering, added a generalized steering programming command. Current modes are single queue and host driven multiqueue, but I envision support for guest driven

At Jason's request, I am trying to help finalize the spec for the new multiqueue feature. Changes from Jason's rfc: - reserved vq 3: this makes all rx vqs even and tx vqs odd, which looks nicer to me. - documented packet steering, added a generalized steering programming command. Current modes are single queue and host driven multiqueue, but I envision support for guest driven

Hi, here's a proposal to support adapter (aka thin) interrupts for virtio-ccw. The basic idea is to make host->guest signalling on s390 more lightweight. Normal I/O interrupts have two parts: an interrupt that is made pending on any of the guest cpus, and status that is made pending on the subchannel. This means that we need two exits for every interrupt. With adapter interrupts, only

Hi, here's a proposal to support adapter (aka thin) interrupts for virtio-ccw. The basic idea is to make host->guest signalling on s390 more lightweight. Normal I/O interrupts have two parts: an interrupt that is made pending on any of the guest cpus, and status that is made pending on the subchannel. This means that we need two exits for every interrupt. With adapter interrupts, only

Add field for guest to specify command size for virtio-blk. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- virtio-spec.lyx | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/virtio-spec.lyx b/virtio-spec.lyx index a8ce3f9..fea97ed 100644 --- a/virtio-spec.lyx +++ b/virtio-spec.lyx @@ -5826,6 +5826,16 @@

Add field for guest to specify command size for virtio-blk. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- virtio-spec.lyx | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/virtio-spec.lyx b/virtio-spec.lyx index a8ce3f9..fea97ed 100644 --- a/virtio-spec.lyx +++ b/virtio-spec.lyx @@ -5826,6 +5826,16 @@

Add RFS support to virtio network device. Add a new feature flag VIRTIO_NET_F_RFS for this feature, a new configuration field max_virtqueue_pairs to detect supported number of virtqueues as well as a new command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RFS to program packet steering for unidirectional protocols. --- Changes from v4: - address Jason's comments - have configuration specify the number of VQ pairs and

Add RFS support to virtio network device. Add a new feature flag VIRTIO_NET_F_RFS for this feature, a new configuration field max_virtqueue_pairs to detect supported number of virtqueues as well as a new command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_RFS to program packet steering for unidirectional protocols. --- Changes from v4: - address Jason's comments - have configuration specify the number of VQ pairs and

I took a stub at documenting CMD and FLUSH request types in virtio block. Christoph, could you look over this please? I note that the interface seems full of warts to me, this might be a first step to cleaning them. One issue I struggled with especially is how type field mixes bits and non-bit values. I ended up simply defining all legal values, so that we have CMD = 2, CMD_OUT = 3 and so on.

I took a stub at documenting CMD and FLUSH request types in virtio block. Christoph, could you look over this please? I note that the interface seems full of warts to me, this might be a first step to cleaning them. One issue I struggled with especially is how type field mixes bits and non-bit values. I ended up simply defining all legal values, so that we have CMD = 2, CMD_OUT = 3 and so on.