This driver allows to usage of the paravirt SCSI controller
in VMware products like ESXi. The pvscsi driver provides a
substantial performance improvement in block devices versus
the emulated mpt and mps SCSI/SAS controllers.
Error handling in this driver has not been extensively tested
yet.
Submitted by: vbhakta@vmware.com
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: VMware, Panzura
Differential Revision: D18613
and VMware legal:
- Add a dual BSD-2 Clause/GPLv2 LICENSE file in the VMCI directory
- Remove the use of "All Rights Reserved"
- Per best practice, remove copyright/license info from Makefile
Reviewed by: imp, emaste, jhb, Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@vmware.com>
Approved by: VMware legal via Mark Peek <markpeek@vmware.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14979
In a virtual machine, VMCI is exposed as a regular PCI device. The primary
communication mechanisms supported are a point-to-point bidirectional
transport based on a pair of memory-mapped queues, and asynchronous
notifications in the form of datagrams and doorbells. These features are
available to kernel level components such as vSockets through the VMCI
kernel API. In addition to this, the VMCI kernel API provides support for
receiving events related to the state of the VMCI communication channels,
and the virtual machine itself.
Submitted by: Vishnu Dasa <vdasa@vmware.com>
Reviewed by: bcr, imp
Obtained from: VMware
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14289
opt_inet6.h into kmod.mk by forcing almost everybody to eat the same
dogfood. While at it, consolidate the opt_bpf.h and opt_mroute.h
targets here too.
As a prerequisite for multiple queues, the guest must have MSIX enabled.
Unfortunately, to work around device passthrough bugs, FreeBSD disables
MSIX when running as a VMWare guest due to the hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist
tunable; this tunable must be disabled for multiple queues.
Also included is various minor changes from the projects/vmxnet branch.
MFC after: 1 month
