tap: add vhost/vhostfd options

This adds vhost binary option to tap, to enable vhost net accelerator. Default is off for now, we'll be able to make default on long term when we know it's stable. vhostfd option can be used by management, to pass in the fd. Assigning vhostfd implies vhost=on. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
kvaneesh · Apr 1, 2010 · 82b0d80 · 82b0d80
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diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
@@ -976,6 +976,14 @@ static const struct {
                 .name = "vnet_hdr",
                 .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
                 .help = "enable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag on the tap interface"
+            }, {
+                .name = "vhost",
+                .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+                .help = "enable vhost-net network accelerator",
+            }, {
+                .name = "vhostfd",
+                .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+                .help = "file descriptor of an already opened vhost net device",
             },
 #endif /* _WIN32 */
             { /* end of list */ }

diff --git a/net/tap.c b/net/tap.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 
 #include "net/tap-linux.h"
 
+#include "hw/vhost_net.h"
+
 /* Maximum GSO packet size (64k) plus plenty of room for
  * the ethernet and virtio_net headers
  */
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ typedef struct TAPState {
     unsigned int has_vnet_hdr : 1;
     unsigned int using_vnet_hdr : 1;
     unsigned int has_ufo: 1;
+    VHostNetState *vhost_net;
 } TAPState;
 
 static int launch_script(const char *setup_script, const char *ifname, int fd);
@@ -253,6 +256,10 @@ static void tap_cleanup(VLANClientState *nc)
 {
     TAPState *s = DO_UPCAST(TAPState, nc, nc);
 
+    if (s->vhost_net) {
+        vhost_net_cleanup(s->vhost_net);
+    }
+
     qemu_purge_queued_packets(nc);
 
     if (s->down_script[0])
@@ -308,6 +315,7 @@ static TAPState *net_tap_fd_init(VLANState *vlan,
     s->has_ufo = tap_probe_has_ufo(s->fd);
     tap_set_offload(&s->nc, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
     tap_read_poll(s, 1);
+    s->vhost_net = NULL;
     return s;
 }
 
@@ -457,5 +465,26 @@ int net_init_tap(QemuOpts *opts, Monitor *mon, const char *name, VLANState *vlan
         }
     }
 
+    if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "vhost", !!qemu_opt_get(opts, "vhostfd"))) {
+        int vhostfd, r;
+        if (qemu_opt_get(opts, "vhostfd")) {
+            r = net_handle_fd_param(mon, qemu_opt_get(opts, "vhostfd"));
+            if (r == -1) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+            vhostfd = r;
+        } else {
+            vhostfd = -1;
+        }
+        s->vhost_net = vhost_net_init(&s->nc, vhostfd);
+        if (!s->vhost_net) {
+            error_report("vhost-net requested but could not be initialized");
+            return -1;
+        }
+    } else if (qemu_opt_get(opts, "vhostfd")) {
+        error_report("vhostfd= is not valid without vhost");
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ DEF("net", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_net,
     "-net tap[,vlan=n][,name=str],ifname=name\n"
     "                connect the host TAP network interface to VLAN 'n'\n"
 #else
-    "-net tap[,vlan=n][,name=str][,fd=h][,ifname=name][,script=file][,downscript=dfile][,sndbuf=nbytes][,vnet_hdr=on|off]\n"
+    "-net tap[,vlan=n][,name=str][,fd=h][,ifname=name][,script=file][,downscript=dfile][,sndbuf=nbytes][,vnet_hdr=on|off][,vhost=on|off][,vhostfd=h]\n"
     "                connect the host TAP network interface to VLAN 'n' and use the\n"
     "                network scripts 'file' (default=" DEFAULT_NETWORK_SCRIPT ")\n"
     "                and 'dfile' (default=" DEFAULT_NETWORK_DOWN_SCRIPT ")\n"
@@ -902,6 +902,8 @@ DEF("net", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_net,
     "                default of 'sndbuf=1048576' can be disabled using 'sndbuf=0')\n"
     "                use vnet_hdr=off to avoid enabling the IFF_VNET_HDR tap flag\n"
     "                use vnet_hdr=on to make the lack of IFF_VNET_HDR support an error condition\n"
+    "                use vhost=on to enable experimental in kernel accelerator\n"
+    "                use 'vhostfd=h' to connect to an already opened vhost net device\n"
 #endif
     "-net socket[,vlan=n][,name=str][,fd=h][,listen=[host]:port][,connect=host:port]\n"
     "                connect the vlan 'n' to another VLAN using a socket connection\n"