Integrate accelerated networking support into netvsc PMD.
This allows netvsc to manage VF without using failsafe or vdev_netvsc.
For the exception vswitch path some tests like transmit
get a 22% increase in packets/sec.
For the VF path, the code is slightly shorter but has no
real change in performance.
Pro:
* using netvsc is more like other DPDK NIC's
* the exception packet uses less CPU
* much smaller code size
* no locking required on VF transmit/receive path
* no legacy Linux network device to get mangled by userspace
* much simpler (1K vs 9K) LOC
* unified extended statistics
Con:
* using netvsc has more complex startup model
* no bifurcated driver support
* no flow support (since host does not have flow API).
* no tunnel offload support
* no receive interrupt support
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Implement callback functionality on link state changes.
This is not really driven off of interrupt file descriptor like most other
PMD's. Instead, it happens when a link state change message arrives
in the common ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
The driver supports Hyper-V networking directly like
virtio for KVM or vmxnet3 for VMware.
This code is based off of the FreeBSD driver. The file and variable
names are kept the same to help with understanding (with most of the
BSD style warts removed).
This version supports the latest NetVSP 6.1 version and
older versions.
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
