GEOM does not support scatter/gather lists in its I/Os. Such requests
are cut in pieces by physio(), that may be problematic, if those pieces
are not multiple of provider's sector size. If such case is detected,
move the data through temporary sequential buffer.
MFC after: 2 weeks
There are a number of assumptions about legacy interrupts always
being available in virtio so don't allow back-ends to make the
decision to support them.
This fixes the issue seen with virtio-rnd on OpenBSD. MSI-x vectors
were not being used, and the virtio-rnd backend wasn't allocating a
legacy interrupt resulting in a bhyve assert and guest exit.
Reported by: Julian Hsiao, madoka at nyanisore dot net
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 1 week
I/O interface.
Asynchronous operation, based on r280026 change, allows to not block virtual
CPU during I/O processing, that on slow/busy storage can take seconds.
Use of recently improved block I/O interface allows to process multiple
requests same time, that improves random I/O performance on wide storages.
Benchmarks of virtual disk, backed by ZVOL on RAID10 pool of 4 HDDs, show
~3.5 times random read performance improvements, while no degradation on
linear I/O. Guest CPU usage during test dropped from 100% to almost zero.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Original virtqueue design allows queued and out-of-order processing, but
helpers added in r253440 suppose only direct blocking in-order one.
It could be fine for network, etc., but it is a huge limitation for storage
devices.
Passing through physical block size/offset from underlying storage allows
guest to manage proper data and I/O alignment to improve performance.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This gets rid of the following error message during FreeBSD guest bootup:
"vtbd0: hard error cmd=flush fsbn 0"
Reported by: rodrigc
Reviewed by: grehan
the virtio backends.
- Add a new ioctl to export the count of pins on the I/O APIC from vmm
to the hypervisor.
- Use pins on the I/O APIC >= 16 for PCI interrupts leaving 0-15 for
ISA interrupts.
- Populate the MP Table with I/O interrupt entries for any PCI INTx
interrupts.
- Create a _PRT table under the PCI root bridge in ACPI to route any
PCI INTx interrupts appropriately.
- Track which INTx interrupts are in use per-slot so that functions
that share a slot attempt to distribute their INTx interrupts across
the four available pins.
- Implicitly mask INTx interrupts if either MSI or MSI-X is enabled
and when the INTx DIS bit is set in a function's PCI command register.
Either assert or deassert the associated I/O APIC pin when the
state of one of those conditions changes.
- Add INTx support to the virtio backends.
- Always advertise the MSI capability in the virtio backends.
Submitted by: neel (7)
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Use #defines for capability bits
- Export the VTBLK_F_BLK_SIZE capability
- Fix bug in calculating capacity: it is in
512-byte units, not the underlying sector size
This allows virtio-blk to have backing devices
with non 512-byte sector sizes e.g. /dev/cd0, and
4K-block harddrives.
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 3 days
- Allow a hostbridge to be created with AMD as a vendor.
This passes the OpenBSD check to allow the use of MSI
on a PCI bus.
- Enable the i/o interrupt section of the mptable, and
populate it with unity ISA mappings. This allows the
'legacy' IRQ mappings of the PCI serial port to be
set up. Delete unused print routine that was obscuring code.
- Use the '-W' option to enable virtio single-vector MSI
rather than an environment variable. Update the virtio
net/block drivers to query this flag when setting up
interrupts.: bhyverun.c
- Fix the arithmetic used to derive the century byte in
RTC CMOS, as well as encoding it in BCD.
Reviewed by: neel
MFC after: 3 days
annoying verbose boot error of the form
g_handleattr: vtbd0 bio_length 24 len 28 -> EFAULT
The ident returned by bhyve is a text string 'BHYVE-XXXX-XXXX', where
the X's are the first bytes of the md5 hash of the backing filename.
Reviewed by: neel
Approved by: re (gjb)
descriptors. Prior to this change the device would only work with guests
that chose to use indirect descriptors.
Modify the device reset callback to actually reset the device state.
Submitted by: Tycho Nightingale (tycho.nightingale@pluribusnetworks.com)
command line option "-m <memsize in MB>" to specify the memory size.
Prior to this change the user needed to explicitly specify the amount of
memory allocated below 4G (-m <lowmem>) and the amount above 4G (-M <highmem>).
The "-M" option is no longer supported by 'bhyveload' and 'bhyve'.
The start of the PCI hole is fixed at 3GB and cannot be directly changed
using command line options. However it is still possible to change this in
special circumstances via the 'vm_set_lowmem_limit()' API provided by
libvmmapi.
Submitted by: Dinakar Medavaram (initial version)
Reviewed by: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
This seems prudent to do in its own right but it also opens up the possibility
of not having to mmap the entire guest address space in the 'bhyve' process
context.
Discussed with: grehan
Obtained from: NetApp
the default.
The current behavior of advertising a single MSI vector can be requested by
setting the environment variable "BHYVE_USE_MSI" to "yes". The use of MSI
is not compliant with the virtio specification and will be eventually phased
out.
Submitted by: Gopakumar T
Obtained from: NetApp
bhyve is intended to be a generic hypervisor, and not FreeBSD-specific.
(renaming internal routines will come later)
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
- New memory region interface. An RB tree holds the regions,
with a last-found per-vCPU cache to deal with the common case
of repeated guest accesses to MMIO registers in the same page.
- Support memory-mapped BARs in PCI emulation.
mem.c/h - memory region interface
instruction_emul.c/h - remove old region interface.
Use gpa from EPT exit to avoid a tablewalk to
determine operand address. Determine operand size
and use when calling through to region handler.
fbsdrun.c - call into region interface on paging
exit. Distinguish between instruction emul error
and region not found
pci_emul.c/h - implement new BAR callback api.
Split BAR alloc routine into routines that
require/don't require the BAR phys address.
ioapic.c
pci_passthru.c
pci_virtio_block.c
pci_virtio_net.c
pci_uart.c - update to new BAR callback i/f
Reviewed by: neel
Obtained from: NetApp
vmm.ko - kernel module for VT-x, VT-d and hypervisor control
bhyve - user-space sequencer and i/o emulation
vmmctl - dump of hypervisor register state
libvmm - front-end to vmm.ko chardev interface
bhyve was designed and implemented by Neel Natu.
Thanks to the following folk from NetApp who helped to make this available:
Joe CaraDonna
Peter Snyder
Jeff Heller
Sandeep Mann
Steve Miller
Brian Pawlowski
