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Rusty Russell 7b21e34fd1 virtio: harsher barriers for rpmsg.
We were cheating with our barriers; using the smp ones rather than the
real device ones.  That was fine, until rpmsg came along, which is
used to talk to a real device (a non-SMP CPU).

Unfortunately, just putting back the real barriers (reverting
d57ed95d) causes a performance regression on virtio-pci.  In
particular, Amos reports netbench's TCP_RR over virtio_net CPU
utilization increased up to 35% while throughput went down by up to
14%.

By comparison, this branch is in the noise.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/11/22

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30
David S. Miller b3613118eb Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2011-12-02 13:49:21 -05:00
Sasha Levin fe1a7fe2c4 virtio-mmio: Correct the name of the guest features selector
Guest features selector spelling mistake.

Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-11-24 13:04:47 +10:30
Rick Jones 66846048f5 enable virtio_net to return bus_info in ethtool -i consistent with emulated NICs
Add a new .bus_name to virtio_config_ops then modify virtio_net to
call through to it in an ethtool .get_drvinfo routine to report
bus_info in ethtool -i output which is consistent with other
emulated NICs and the output of lspci.

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-16 17:26:46 -05:00
Pawel Moll edfd52e636 virtio: Add platform bus driver for memory mapped virtio device
This patch, based on virtio PCI driver, adds support for memory
mapped (platform) virtio device. This should allow environments
like qemu to use virtio-based block & network devices even on
platforms without PCI support.

One can define and register a platform device which resources
will describe memory mapped control registers and "mailbox"
interrupt. Such device can be also instantiated using the Device
Tree node with compatible property equal "virtio,mmio".

Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael S.Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-11-02 11:41:01 +10:30