This patch partially implements the e1000 interrupt mitigation mechanisms.
Using a single QEMUTimer, it emulates the ITR register (which is the newer
mitigation register, recommended by Intel) and approximately emulates
RADV and TADV registers. TIDV and RDTR register functionalities are not
emulated (RDTR is only used to validate RADV, according to the e1000 specs).
RADV, TADV, TIDV and RDTR registers make up the older e1000 mitigation
mechanism and would need a timer each to be completely emulated. However,
a single timer has been used in order to reach a good compromise between
emulation accuracy and simplicity/efficiency.
The implemented mechanism can be enabled/disabled specifying the command
line e1000-specific boolean parameter "mitigation", e.g.
qemu-system-x86_64 -device e1000,mitigation=on,... ...
For more information, see the Software developer's manual at
http://download.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8254x_GBe_SDM.pdf.
Interrupt mitigation boosts performance when the guest suffers from
an high interrupt rate (i.e. receiving short UDP packets at high packet
rate). For some numerical results see the following link
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20130520-rizzo-vm.pdf
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> (for pc-* machines)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This is an autogenerated patch using scripts/switch-timer-api.
Switch the entire code base to using the new timer API.
Note this patch may introduce some line length issues.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The category will be used to sort the devices displayed in
the command line help.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1375107465-25767-4-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Replace direct uses of E1000State::dev field with QOM casts and rename
it to parent_obj.
Acked-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Define and use standard QOM cast macro. Remove usages of DO_UPCAST()
and direct -> style upcasting.
Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
This includes some pci enhancements:
Better support for systems with multiple PCI root buses
FW cfg interface for more robust pci programming in BIOS
Minor fixes/cleanups for fw cfg and cross-version migration -
because of dependencies with other patches
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'mst/tags/for_anthony' into staging
pci,misc enhancements
This includes some pci enhancements:
Better support for systems with multiple PCI root buses
FW cfg interface for more robust pci programming in BIOS
Minor fixes/cleanups for fw cfg and cross-version migration -
because of dependencies with other patches
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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* mst/tags/for_anthony:
pci: Fold host_buses list into PCIHostState functionality
pci: Remove domain from PCIHostBus
pci: Simpler implementation of primary PCI bus
pci: Add root bus parameter to pci_nic_init()
pci: Add root bus argument to pci_get_bus_devfn()
pci: Replace pci_find_domain() with more general pci_root_bus_path()
pci: Use helper to find device's root bus in pci_find_domain()
pci: Abolish pci_find_root_bus()
pci: Move pci_read_devaddr to pci-hotplug-old.c
pci: Cleanup configuration for pci-hotplug.c
pvpanic: fix fwcfg for big endian hosts
pvpanic: initialization cleanup
MAINTAINERS: s/Marcelo/Paolo/
e1000: cleanup process_tx_desc
pc_piix: cleanup init compat handling
pc: pass PCI hole ranges to Guests
pci: store PCI hole ranges in guestinfo structure
range: add Range structure
Message-id: 1373228271-31223-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Coverity complains about two overruns in process_tx_desc(). The
complaints are false positives, but we might as well eliminate
them. The problem is that "hdr" is defined as an unsigned int,
but then used to offset an array of size 65536, and another of
size 256 bytes. hdr will actually never be greater than 255
though, as it's assigned only once and to the value of
tp->hdr_len, which is an uint8_t. This patch simply gets rid of
hdr, replacing it with tp->hdr_len, which makes it consistent
with all other tp member use in the function.
v2:
- also cleanup coding style issues in the touched lines
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
