Because we cannot always assume the irq fd will be the way to send
an IRQ to the guest, this means we cannot make the assumption that
every virtio device implementation should expect an EventFd to
trigger an IRQ.
This commit organizes the code related to virtio devices so that it
now expects a Rust closure instead of a known EventFd. This lets the
caller decide what should be done whenever a device needs to trigger
an interrupt to the guest.
The closure will allow for other type of interrupt mechanism such as
MSI to be implemented. From the device perspective, it could be a
pin based interrupt or an MSI, it does not matter since the device
will simply call into the provided callback, passing the appropriate
Queue as a reference. This design keeps the device model generic.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In order to provide connectivity through network interface between
host and guest, this patch introduces the virtio-net backend.
This code is based on Firecracker commit
d4a89cdc0bd2867f821e3678328dabad6dd8b767
It is a trimmed down version of the original files as it removes the
rate limiter support. It has been ported to support vm-memory crate
and the epoll handler has been modified in order to run a dedicated
epoll loop from the device itself. This epoll loop runs in its own
dedicated thread.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
