similar to: [PATCH v2 0/2] virtio-balloon spec: silent deflation

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

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:40:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > The idea of the VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST feature was 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

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 @@

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

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

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. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> -- Changes from v3: - rename multiqueue ->

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. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> -- Changes from v3: - rename multiqueue ->

VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST cannot be used properly because it is a "negative" feature: it tells you that silent defalte is not supported. Right now, QEMU refuses migration if the target does not support all the features that were negotiated. But then: - a migration from non-MUST_TELL_HOST to MUST_TELL_HOST will succeed, which is wrong; - a migration from MUST_TELL_HOST to

VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_MUST_TELL_HOST cannot be used properly because it is a "negative" feature: it tells you that silent defalte is not supported. Right now, QEMU refuses migration if the target does not support all the features that were negotiated. But then: - a migration from non-MUST_TELL_HOST to MUST_TELL_HOST will succeed, which is wrong; - a migration from MUST_TELL_HOST to

Changes from v2: added padding between avail idx and flags, and changed virtio to only publish used index when callbacks are enabled. Here's a rewrite of the original patch with a new layout. I haven't tested it yet so no idea how this performs, but I think this addresses the cache bounce issue raised by Avi. Posting for early flames/comments. Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring

Changes from v2: added padding between avail idx and flags, and changed virtio to only publish used index when callbacks are enabled. Here's a rewrite of the original patch with a new layout. I haven't tested it yet so no idea how this performs, but I think this addresses the cache bounce issue raised by Avi. Posting for early flames/comments. Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring

Here's a rewrite of the original patch with a new layout. I haven't tested it yet so no idea how this performs, but I think this addresses the cache bounce issue raised by Avi. Posting for early flames/comments. Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring doesn't need to see where Guest is up to in consuming the ring. However, to completely understand what's going on from the

Here's a rewrite of the original patch with a new layout. I haven't tested it yet so no idea how this performs, but I think this addresses the cache bounce issue raised by Avi. Posting for early flames/comments. Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring doesn't need to see where Guest is up to in consuming the ring. However, to completely understand what's going on from the

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.

From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma at redhat.com> 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 the fly without device reinitialization. Current Virtio