This crate contains a new definition of the Queue, AvailIter,
DescriptorChain and Descriptor structures forked from the upstream
crate rust-vmm/vm-virtio d62f2246568d4f544e848b23c025b268effac5ca.
The following patches have been applied on top of this base in order to
make it work correctly with Cloud Hypervisor requirements:
- Add MSI vector field to the Queue
In order to help with MSI/MSI-X support, it is convenient to store the
value of the interrupt vector inside the Queue directly.
- Handle address translations
For devices with access to data in memory being translated, we add to
the Queue the ability to translate the address stored in the
descriptor.
It is very helpful as it performs the translation right after the
untranslated address is read from memory, avoiding any errors from
happening from the consumer's crate perspective. It also allows the
consumer to reduce greatly the amount of duplicated code for applying
the translation in many different places.
- Add helpers for Queue structure
They are meant to help crate's consumers getting/setting information
about the Queue.
These patches can be found on the 'ch' branch from the Cloud Hypervisor
fork: https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/vm-virtio.git
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
