The logic for handling the networking queues can now be shared between
the version running in vhost-user-net and vm-virtio.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
According to the virtio spec the guest should always be interrupted when
"used" descriptors are returned from the device to the driver. However
this was not the case for the TX queue in either the virtio-net
implementation or the vhost-user-net implementation.
This would have meant that the guest could end up with a reduced TX
throughput as it would not know that the packets had been dispatched via
the VMM.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Add a new "host_mac" parameter to "--net" and "--net-backend" and use
this to set the MAC address on the tap interface. If no address is given
one is randomly assigned and is stored in the config.
Support for vhost-user-net self spawning was also included.
Fixes: #1177
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Changes is vhost crate require VhostUserDaemon users to create and
provide a vhost::Listener in advance. This allows us to adopt
sandboxing strategies in the future, by being able to create the UNIX
socket before switching to a restricted namespace.
Update also the reference to vhost crate in Cargo.lock to point to the
latest commit from the dragonball branch.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Switch to using the recently added OptionParser in the code that parses
the network backend.
Whilst doing this also update the net-backend syntax to use "sock"
rather than socket.
Fixes: #1092
Partially fixes: #1091
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Rather than repeat syntax for the vhost-user-net backend in multiple
places store it in one place and reference it from the required places.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
By implementing queues_per_thread(), this patch fills the last missing
bit to enable multithreaded multiqueue support for the vhost-user-net
backend implementation.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
By adding a "thread_id" parameter to handle_event(), the backend crate
can now indicate to the backend implementation which thread triggered
the processing of some events.
This is applied to vhost-user-net backend and allows for simplifying a
lot the code since each thread is identical.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
By adding the "thread_index" parameter to the function exit_event() from
the VhostUserBackend trait, the backend crate now has the ability to ask
the backend implementation about the exit event related to a specific
thread.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
In order to prepare for the support of multithreaded multiqueues, the
structure VhostUserNetThread is simplified to hold only one RX queue,
one TX queue, and one TAP interface.
Following this change, VhostUserNetBackend now holds a list of threads
instead of going through each thread to handle multiqueues.
These changes decouple neatly the abstraction between the backend and
each thread. This allows for a lot of simplification since we now know
all threads are identical, hence the handling of events becomes very
straightforward.
One important point is that each thread can be locked when in use,
without causing any contention with other threads since the backend
doesn't need to be locked anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Now that multiple worker threads can be run from the backend crate, it
is important that each backend implementation can access every worker
thread.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
By changing the mutability of this function, after adapting all
backends, we should be able to implement multithreads with
multiqueues support without hitting a bottleneck on the backend
locking.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Both blk, net and fs backends have been updated to avoid the requirement
of having handle_event(&mut self). This will allow the backend crate to
avoid taking a write lock onto the backend object, which will remove the
potential contention point when multiple threads will be handling
multiqueues.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Add helpers to Vring and VhostUserSlaveReqHandler for EVENT_IDX, so
consumers of this crate can make use of this feature.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
Implement the exit_event() method on the VhostUserBackend trait. It is
necessary to specify a custom exit event id in this case as the loop is
also used for handling activity on the tap file descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Split the basic launching functionality into its own function in the
newly added vhost_user_net crate.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Extract the majority of the code that provides the vhost-user-net
backend into its own crate and port the binary to use it.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
