This patch support mergeable RX feature and thus support jumbo frame RX and TX
in user space vhost(as virtio backend).
On RX, it secures enough room from vring to accommodate one complete scattered
packet which is received by PMD from physical port, and then copy data from
mbuf to vring buffer, possibly across a few vring entries and descriptors.
On TX, it gets a jumbo frame, possibly described by a few vring descriptors which
are chained together with the flags of 'NEXT', and then copy them into one scattered
packet and TX it to physical port through PMD.
Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
This commit removes trailing whitespace from lines in files. Almost all
files are affected, as the BSD license copyright header had trailing
whitespace on 4 lines in it [hence the number of files reporting 8 lines
changed in the diffstat].
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
[Thomas: remove spaces before tabs in libs]
[Thomas: remove more trailing spaces in non-C files]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
This patch supports user space vhost zero copy. It removes packets copying between host and guest in RX/TX.
It introduces an extra ring to store the detached mbufs. At initialization stage all mbufs will put into
this ring; when one guest starts, vhost gets the available buffer address allocated by guest for RX and
translates them into host space addresses, then attaches them to mbufs and puts the attached mbufs into
mempool.
Queue starting and DMA refilling will get mbufs from mempool and use them to set the DMA addresses.
For TX, it gets the buffer addresses of available packets to be transmitted from guest and translates
them to host space addresses, then attaches them to mbufs and puts them to TX queues.
After TX finishes, it pulls mbufs out from mempool, detaches them and puts them back into the extra ring.
Signed-off-by: Ouyang Changchun <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
The vhost sample application demonstrates integration of the Intel(R) Data Plane
Development Kit (Intel(R) DPDK) with the Linux KVM hypervisor by implementing the
vhost-net offload API. The sample application performs simple packet switching
between virtual machines based on Media Access Control (MAC) address or Virtual
Local Area Network (VLAN) tag. The splitting of ethernet traffic from an external switch
is performed in hardware by the Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDQ) and Data
Center Bridging (DCB) features of the Intel(R) 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
