These library changes provide a new Intel DPDK feature for communicating
with virtual machines using QEMU's IVSHMEM mechanism.
The feature works by providing a command line for QEMU to map several hugepages
into a single IVSHMEM device. For the guest to know what is inside any given IVSHMEM
device (and to distinguish between Intel(R) DPDK and non-Intel(R) DPDK IVSHMEM
devices), a metadata file is also mapped into the IVSHMEM segment. No work needs to
be done by the guest application to map IVSHMEM devices into memory; they are
automatically recognized by the Intel(R) DPDK Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL).
Changes in this patch:
* Changes to EAL to allow mapping of all hugepages in a memseg into a single file
* Changes to EAL to allow ivshmem devices to be transparently mapped in
the process running on the guest.
* New ivshmem library to create and manage metadata exported to guest VM's
* New ivshmem compilation targets
* Mempool and ring changes to allow export of structures to a VM and allow
a VM to attach to those structures.
* New autotests to unit tests this functionality.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Add support for haswell based systems.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
For cases where the compilation microarchitecture is explicitly given, we
extract the cpu-flags to use from the compiler rather than hard-coding. This
means that we will only ever use instruction sets supported by the compiler,
rather than having a case where the uarch and the Intel DPDK both support a
given instruction-set, but the compiler does not.
In the case where 'native' uarch support is requested, the same mechanism is
also used to detect the instruction-sets supported
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
- Configuration for combined and shared library was only in the template
defconfig_x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc.
- CONFIG_RTE_LIBNAME was in the wrong section
- RTE_LIBNAME had no quote in "C context" (include/rte_config.h)
- and then CONFIG_RTE_LIBNAME quotes were not properly removed in "make context"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Changes to allow compilation and use on FreeBSD. Includes:
* contigmem and nic_uio driver for FreeBSD
* new EAL instance
* new "bsdapp" compilation target
* various compilation fixes due to differences between linux and freebsd
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
In rte.toolchain-compat.mk, ensure MACHINE_CFLAGS is initialized when
using GCC 4.7. Update the GCC 4.6 test to also include GCC 4.7.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Witek <krzysztof.witek@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Zijie Pan <zijie.pan@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Using gcc is wrong, we should use the cross gcc to detect the
version of gcc.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Gauthier <samuel.gauthier@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
