From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:35:02 +0300
David,
The following tree includes a patch fixing an issue with vhost-net in
2.6.34-rc3. Please pull for 2.6.34.
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: Changli Gao xiao...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:33:02 +0800
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, xiaohui@intel.com wrote:
+static int dev_is_mpassthru(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ if (dev dev-mp_port)
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
Please make it
From: Changli Gao xiao...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:35:01 +0800
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, xiaohui@intel.com wrote:
+static int dev_is_mpassthru(struct net_device *dev)
bool return value should be better here.
Right.
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From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:20:06 +0800
The idea is simple, just to pin the guest VM user space and then let
host NIC driver has the chance to directly DMA to it.
Isn't it much easier to map the RX ring of the network device into the
guest's address space, have DMA
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:32:45 +0300
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help vhost-net.
Please pull them for net-next. Another set of patches is under
debugging/testing and I hope to get them ready in time for 2.6.35,
so there
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 15:07:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 00:32:45 +0300
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help vhost-net.
Please pull them for net-next. Another set of patches
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:21:01 +0300
This is an amended pull request: I have rebased the tree to the
correct patches. This has been through basic tests and seems
to work fine here.
The following tree includes a couple of enhancements that help
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:44:34 +0300
David, if it's not too late, please pull the following
last minute fix into 2.6.34.
Pulled, thanks.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 04:19:31 +0300
With PUBLISH_USED_IDX, guest tells us which used entries
it has consumed. This can be used to reduce the number
of interrupts: after we write a used entry, if the guest has not yet
consumed the previous entry, or
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 06:12:52 +0300
DaveM, just to clarify, this patch is on top of the series
we are working on with David L Stevens. It's not for your net tree.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:57:14 +0300
David,
The following tree includes fixes dealing with error handling
in vhost-net. It is on top of net-2.6.
Please merge it for 2.6.35.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:07:13 +0200
Another, and hopefully the last, note, is that
git-am can only handle Subject/From lines
at the beginning of the message.
So git style of the mail would be
...
I think it's weird. We could invent some kind of
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:24:00 +0200
Assuming it's okay with davem, I think it makes sense to merge this
patch through Rusty's tree because vhost is the first user of the new
interface. Posted here for completeness.
I'm fine with that, please add my:
From: Javier Guerra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:31:07 -0500
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc
processors with hardware virtualization support.
Does Sparc
From: Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:51 -0500
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:26 -0700, David Miller wrote:
From: Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:39 -0500
It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc
From: Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:28:06 +0300
On 9/22/08, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As he mentioned, the V8 rett instruction causes problems on V9 chips.
An opcode which was a V8 privileged instruction, rett, got reused as
a non-privileged
From: Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:34:12 +0300
On 9/23/08, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sun4v systems come with Sun's hypervisor. Linux simply runs on top
of that, whether as a host or a guest.
The hypervisor source is opensource and we could
From: Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:07:31 -0500
As far as I can see, you have a hypervisor privilege mode which allows
your guests to execute privileged instructions like WRPR without
trapping.
Sure.
Without that hardware support (with only 2 privilege
From: Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:20:33 +0300
I see, also Qemu needs to use one more bit then. Does this mean that
even V8 code written specially may use these traps to call hypervisor?
No, V8 code should not set the extra bit. Only V9 code on a processor
which is
From: Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:22:45 +0300
I'm not sure, but I think that hypervisor is not a real hypervisor
like the PROM version but one specially designed for Legion emulator.
No, it's the real deal.
All the real hardware device support is there.
And Legion
From: Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:06:21 +0300
Now I found the relevant part in the manuals. The extra sun4v bit is
not taken into account from user mode, so we can't catch privileged to
hyperprivileged mode traps easily.
That's right, the top bit is ignored in user
From: Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:50:55 +0200
It is undesirable to use TCP/IP for this purpose since network
connectivity may not exist between host and guest and if it exists the
traffic can be not routable between host and guest for security reasons
or TCP/IP
From: Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:48:19 +0200
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:44:36PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
You guys really need to rethink this. Either a stream protocol is a
workable solution to your problem, or it isn't.
Stream protocol is workable solution
From: Anthony Liguori anth...@codemonkey.ws
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:02:23 -0600
There is already an AF_IUCV for s390.
This is a scarecrow and irrelevant to this discussion.
And this is exactly why I asked that any arguments in this thread
avoid talking about virtualization technology and why
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:05:48 +0200
Interesting. Could this is be a variant of the now famuous bufferbloat then?
Sigh, bufferbloat is the new global warming... :-/
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:44:40 +0200
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost-net
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:33:49 +0200
copy_from_user is pretty high on perf top profile,
replacing it with __copy_from_user helps.
It's also safe because we do access_ok checks during setup.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Is Rusty
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:04:04 +0200
The following changes since commit 1fc050a13473348f5c439de2bb41c8e92dba5588:
ipv4: Cache source address in nexthop entries. (2011-03-07 20:54:48 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:08:07 +0300
Userspace virtio server has the following hack
so guests rely on it, and we have to replicate it, too:
Use port number to detect incoming IPv4 DHCP response packets,
and fill in the checksum for these.
The
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:04:39 +0300
Since using the module involves updating the management tools
as well, if we go down this route it will be much less painful
for everyone to do push it upstream.
Ok, you can make your case to Patrick McHardy and if
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 19:41:27 +0300
David,
The following tree includes more fixes dealing with
error handling in vhost-net. It is on top of net-2.6.
Please merge it for 2.6.35.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:25:30 +0300
David, please pull the following fixes for 2.6.35.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit 91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b:
net/core: neighbour update Oops (2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700)
are
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:31 +0300
The following changes since commit 4cfa580e7eebb8694b875d2caff3b989ada2efac:
r6040: Fix args to phy_mii_ioctl(). (2010-07-21 21:10:49 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:14:42 -0800
Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit
f9bfbebf34eab707b065116cdc9699d25ba4252a), we don't need to track xmit
skbs in the virio_net driver, which improves transmission performance.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:39:11 +0200
Dave, I see it's marked not applicable:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/44207/
the patch applies to net-next as of
b3b3f04fb587ecb61b5baa6c1c5f0e666fd12d73.
Can this be queued up please?
Should I resubmit with
Just for the record I'm generally not interested in vhost
patches.
If it's a specific network one that will be merged via
the networking tree, yes please CC: me.
But if it's a bunch of changes to vhost.c and other pieces
of infrastructure, feel free to leave me out of it. It just
clutters my
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:37:37 +0200
Dave, so while Rusty's on vacation, what's the best way to get vhost
infrastructure fixes in? Are you ok with getting pull requests and
merging them into net-next? That should keep the clutter in your inbox
to the
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:34:25 +0200
Implicitly, I guess. He said if there's an issue Michael Tsirkin is the
best person to resolve it, this was wrt merging his virtiolguest tree.
He didn't mention vhost, I wrote all of vhost though, there shouldn't be
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:44:40 +0200
The following changes since commit 655ffee284dfcf9a24ac0343f3e5ee6db85b85c5:
Jiri Pirko (1):
wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
are available in the git repository at:
From: Hao, Xudong xudong@intel.com
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:14:50 +0800
I installed a latest kvm based on kernel 2.6.34-rc1, after I load kvm kvm_i=
ntel module, and start /etc/init.d/kvm, a few minutes later, the system wil=
l panic. The panic is easy to reproduce when I use tcpdump in
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:53:55 +0200
The following tree includes patches fixing issues with vhost-net in
2.6.34-rc1. Please pull them for 2.6.34.
Pulled, thanks a lot.
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From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:03:05 +0800
We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external
buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space
to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from
guest virtio-net driver.
1)
From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:23:28 +0800
From: Xin Xiaohui xiaohui@intel.com
2) The idea to key off of skb-dev in skb_release_data() is
fundamentally flawed since many actions can change skb-dev on you,
which will end up causing a leak of your external data
From: Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:50:08 +0800
For device that supports VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS, there's no need to
assume the link is up and we need to call nerif_carrier_off() before
querying device status, otherwise we may get wrong operstate after
diver was loaded
From: Sridhar Samudrala s...@us.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:10:50 -0700
With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with
macvtap backend has the following limitations.
- cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net
- cannot create a vlan device on the
From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:08:13 +0800
From: Xin Xiaohui xiaohui@intel.com
Add a structure in structure net_device, the new field is
named as mp_port. It's for mediate passthru (zero-copy).
It contains the capability for the net device driver,
From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:08:14 +0800
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU) ||
defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU_MODULE)
+ int (*ndo_mp_port_prep)(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct mp_port *port);
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:09:43 +0200
Please merge the following fix for 2.6.37.
It is also applicable to -stable.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit a19faf0250e09b16cac169354126404bc8aa342b:
net: fix skb_defer_rx_timestamp() (2010-12-10
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:23:26 +0200
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:44:13PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Please merge the following tree for 2.6.38.
Thanks!
Rusty Acked it as is, so please pull the below.
Thanks very much!
The following changes
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:33:02 +0200
Please pull the following for 2.6.38.
Thanks!
The following changes since commit 0c21e3aaf6ae85bee804a325aa29c325209180fd:
Merge branch 'for-next' of
From: Alex Williamson alex.william...@hp.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:13:12 -0700
This series enables setting the virtio-net device MAC address, adds
infrastructure for the new control virtqueue, and makes use of it
to support set_rx_mode, unicast and multicast address lists, and
supporting
From: Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:30:31 +
virtio_net: add link status handling
Allow the host to inform us that the link is down by adding
a VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS which indicates that device status is
available in virtio_net config.
This is currently
From: Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:36 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
VLAN filtering allows the hypervisor to drop packets from VLANs
that we're not a part of, further reducing the number of extraneous
packets recieved.
From: Alex Williamson alex.william...@hp.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:05:02 -0700
I'm not completely sure it's everything you're looking for Rusty,
but it does seem cleaner. Let me know if this is closer to what
you're thinking.
Rusty, are these good? If so, would you like you or I to take
From: Alex Williamson alex.william...@hp.com
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:25:50 -0700
This series adds infrastructure for a new control virtqueue and
makes use of it to support set_rx_mode, unicast and multicast address
lists, and supporting a hypervisor based VLAN filter. The goal is to
make
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:12 +1030
On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:56:06 Alex Williamson wrote:
Many physical NICs let the OS re-program the hardware MAC
address. Virtual NICs should allow this too.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson
From: Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 12:56:06 +0100
Having the load spread evenly over all guests sounds like a much rarer
use case.
Totally agreed.
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From: Christian Borntraeger borntrae...@de.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:23:48 +0200
Am Thursday 02 April 2009 18:06:25 schrieb Alex Williamson:
virtio_net: Set the mac config only when VIRITO_NET_F_MAC
VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC indicates the presence of the mac field in config
space, not the
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:36:06 +0300
The following tree includes more regression fixes for vhost-net
in 2.6.36. It is on top of net-2.6.
Please merge it for 2.6.36.
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:48:03 -0700
+ base = (unsigned long)from-iov_base + offset1;
+ size = ((base ~PAGE_MASK) + len + ~PAGE_MASK) PAGE_SHIFT;
+ num_pages = get_user_pages_fast(base, size, 0, page[i]);
+
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:42:22 +0200
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git vhost-net
Pulled, thanks!
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:34:13 +0200
The following tree includes a last minute bugfix for vhost-net.
It is on top of net-2.6. Please merge it for 2.6.36.
Pulled, thanks Michael.
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From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:04:23 +0800
@@ -197,10 +197,11 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
union skb_shared_tx tx_flags;
struct sk_buff *frag_list;
struct skb_shared_hwtstamps hwtstamps;
- skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
/*
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 20:27:32 +0200
It looks like it was a quiet cycle for vhost-net:
probably because most of energy was spent on bugfixes
that went in for 2.6.36.
People are working on multiqueue, tracing but I'm not
sure it'll get done in time for
From: Xin, Xiaohui xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:06:05 +0800
That's to avoid the new cache miss caused by using destructor_arg in data path
like skb_release_data().
That's based on the comment from Eric Dumazet on v7 patches.
Thanks for the explanation.
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From: xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:12:11 +0800
@@ -2891,6 +2922,11 @@ static int __netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
ncls:
#endif
+ /* To intercept mediate passthru(zero-copy) packets here */
+ skb = handle_mpassthru(skb, pt_prev, ret, orig_dev);
+
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:59:01 +0200
David,
Not sure if it's too late for 2.6.36 - in case it's not, the following tree
includes a last minute bugfix for vhost-net, found by code inspection.
It is on top of net-2.6.
Thanks!
The following changes
From: Xin, Xiaohui xiaohui@intel.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:33:12 +0800
Somehow, it seems not a trivial work to support it now. Can we support it
later and as a todo with our current work?
I would prefer the feature work properly, rather than only in specific
cases, before being
From: Jiri Olsa jo...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:15:09 +0100
the rcu_dereference_check is defined as
#define rcu_dereference_check(p, c) \
__rcu_dereference_check((p), rcu_read_lock_held() || (c), __rcu)
so the caller does not need to specify rcu_read_lock_held()
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:49:01 +0200
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:55:34PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
We copy head count to a 16 bit field,
this works by chance on LE but on BE
guest gets 0. Fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:24:38 +0200
Would you like me to repost the patch?
This question is almost retorical.
I said I don't reliably read things I'm not explicitly CC:'d
on, therefore it's possible (and in fact, likely) I don't have
the patch in my
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:37:51 +0200
We copy head count to a 16 bit field, this works by chance on LE but on
BE guest gets 0. Fix it up.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Tested-by: Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de
Cc:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:31:06 +0200
-void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf)
+void vhost_zerocopy_callback(struct ubuf_info *ubuf, int zerocopy_status)
If you're only reporting true/false values, even just for now,
please use 'bool' for
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 18:16:11 +0200
Do you think it's over-engineering, or a good idea?
Engineer what you need, not what you might need.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:16:17 +0200
tun supports zero copy transmit since
0690899b4d4501b3505be069b9a687e68ccbe15b,
however you can only enable this mode if you know your workload does not
trigger heavy guest to host/host to guest traffic -
From: Sachin Kamat sachin.ka...@linaro.org
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:58:28 +0530
linux/vhost.h was included twice.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat sachin.ka...@linaro.org
Michael, are you gonna take this?
Thanks.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:49:55 +0200
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Sachin Kamat sachin.ka...@linaro.org
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:58:28 +0530
linux/vhost.h was included twice.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:14:16 +0200
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:26:41PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Userspace bits:
-
1) LKVM
The latest vhost-blk userspace bits for kvm tool can be found here:
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:31:51 +0200
These packet counters are used to drive the zercopy
selection heuristic so nothing too bad happens if they are off a bit -
and they are also reset once in a while.
But it's cleaner to clear them when backend is set
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:18:00 +0200
The following changes since commit b93196dc5af7729ff7cc50d3d322ab1a364aa14f:
net: fix some compiler warning in net/core/neighbour.c (2012-12-05 21:50:37
-0500)
are available in the git repository at:
From: Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 01:04:54 +0800
This series is an update version (hope the final version) of multiqueue
(VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ) support in virtio-net driver. All previous comments were
addressed, the work were based on Krishna Kumar's work to let virtio-net
From: Jason Wang jasow...@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 01:04:54 +0800
This series is an update version (hope the final version) of multiqueue
(VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ) support in virtio-net driver. All previous comments were
addressed, the work were based on Krishna Kumar's work to let virtio-net
From: Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:44:57 +0400
The combination in $subject apparently stopped working --
I'm running 3.0-rc6 kernel on host where it doesn't work.
Already fixed in net-2.6:
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From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:22:12 -0700
+ while (head) {
+ put_page(head);
+ head = (struct page *)head-private;
+ }
Looks like you might be referencing the page
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:15:25 -0700
This patchset add supports for TX zero-copy between guest and host
kernel through vhost. It significantly reduces CPU utilization on the
local host on which the guest is located (It reduced about 50% CPU usage
for
From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:37:15 +0300
Apply patches 1-3 for now?
Done, and I fixed the use-after-free in patch #2.
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From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:32:25 -0700
You are right, will fix it.
You don't need to, I fixed it when I committed the patch
to net-next-2.6
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From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:12:46 -0700
This patch clears tx zero-copy flag as needed.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma x...@us.ibm.com
Applied, thanks.
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:36:14 +0300
The below is what I came up with. We add the feature enabled
by default ...
s/enabled/disabled/ Well, at least you got it right in the
commit message where it counts :-)
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:00:46 +0300
The following includes vhost-net fixes - both in the
experimental zero copy mode.
Please pull for 3.1.
Thanks!
Where is this the following? I don't see any GIT url to pull
from or anything :-)
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From: Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:32:38 +0300
Fixing a corrupted pull request sent earlier.
Sorry about the noise!
The following includes vhost-net fixes - both in the
experimental zero copy mode.
Please pull for 3.1.
Pulled, thanks!
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From: Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.hengli.com.au
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:57:11 +0800
However, I think we should add a WARN_ON to the splice skb path
so that should a packet find its way through a path that we haven't
thought of then at least we'll know about it.
Good idea.
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From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:48:58 +0930
Dave, can you push this to Linus ASAP?
Ok.
Subject: virtio: net refill on out-of-memory
If we run out of memory, use keventd to fill the buffer. There's a
report of this happening: Page allocation failures in
From: Antoine Martin anto...@devloop.org.uk
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:58:45 +0700
Re-sending as this does not seem to have made it to the list.
It made it, it's just that nobody has had a chance to look into
this.
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From: Alex,Shi alex@intel.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:45:33 +0800
percpu_xxx funcs are duplicated with this_cpu_xxx funcs, so replace them
for further code clean up.
And in preempt safe scenario, __this_cpu_xxx funcs has a bit better
performance since __this_cpu_xxx has no
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:38 -0800
Subject: vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does
From: Kay Sievers kay.siev...@vrfy.org
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:19:05 +0100
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:07, David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote:
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:30:38 -0800
Subject: vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some
From: Stephen Hemminger shemmin...@vyatta.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:52:36 -0800
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:26:45 +
Alan Cox a...@linux.intel.com wrote:
ACKs, NACKs? What is happening here?
I would like an Ack from Alan Cox who switched vhost-net
to a dynamic minor in the first
From: Sasha Levin levinsasha...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:40:54 +0300
This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list
of pages is small enough to fit into a skb.
If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't
go ahead building
From: Sasha Levin levinsasha...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:40:54 +0300
This patch verifies that the length of a buffer stored in a linked list
of pages is small enough to fit into a skb.
If the size is larger than a max size of a skb, it means that we shouldn't
go ahead building
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