103 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Fam Zheng	a3d9a352d4	block: Move NVMe constants to a separate header ... Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180116060901.17413-8-famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>	2018-02-08 09:22:03 +08:00
Fam Zheng	9ed616129e	block/nvme: Implement .bdrv_(un)register_buf ... Forward these two calls to the IOVA manager. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180116060901.17413-6-famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>	2018-02-08 09:22:03 +08:00
Fam Zheng	bdd6a90a9e	block: Add VFIO based NVMe driver ... This is a new protocol driver that exclusively opens a host NVMe controller through VFIO. It achieves better latency than linux-aio by completely bypassing host kernel vfs/block layer. $rw-$bs-$iodepth linux-aio nvme:// ---------------------------------------- randread-4k-1 10.5k 21.6k randread-512k-1 745 1591 randwrite-4k-1 30.7k 37.0k randwrite-512k-1 1945 1980 (unit: IOPS) The driver also integrates with the polling mechanism of iothread. This patch is co-authored by Paolo and me. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180116060901.17413-4-famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>	2018-02-08 09:22:03 +08:00