This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap.
netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it
to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software
switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch
VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines.
netmap and VALE are implemented as a non-intrusive kernel module,
support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD
distributions and available in source format for Linux too.
To compile QEMU with netmap support, use the following configure
options:
./configure [...] --enable-netmap --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys
where "/path/to/netmap" contains the netmap source code, available at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
The same webpage contains more information about the netmap project
(together with papers and presentations).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Move public headers to include/net, and leave private headers in net/.
Put the virtio headers in include/net/tap.h, removing the multiple copies
that existed. Leave include/net/tap.h as the interface for NICs, and
net/tap_int.h as the interface for OS-specific parts of the tap backend.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch doesn't seem much useful alone, I must admit. However,
it makes sense as part of the upcoming directory reorganization,
where I want to have include/net/tap.h as the net<->hw interface
for tap. Then having both net/tap.h and include/net/tap.h does
not work. "Fixed" by moving all the init functions to a single
header file net/clients.h.
The patch also adopts a uniform style for including net/*.h files
from net/*.c, without the net/ path.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
The vlan feature is no longer part of net core. Rename VLANClientState
to NetClientState because net clients are not explicitly associated with
a vlan at all, instead they have a peer net client to which they are
connected.
This patch is a mechanical search-and-replace except for a few
whitespace fixups where changing VLANClientState to NetClientState
misaligned whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Stop using the special-case vlan code in net.c. Instead use the hub net
client to implement the vlan feature. The next patch will remove vlan
code from net.c completely.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
The net_client_init() prototype is kept intact.
Based on "is_netdev", the QemuOpts-rooted QemuOpt-list is parsed as a
Netdev or a NetLegacy. The original meat of net_client_init() is moved to
and simplified in net_client_init1():
Fields not common between -net and -netdev are clearly separated. Getting
the name for the init functions is cleaner: Netdev::id is mandatory, and
all init functions handle a NULL NetLegacy::name. NetLegacy::vlan
explicitly depends on -net (see below).
Verifying the "type=" option for -netdev can be turned into a switch.
Format validation with qemu_opts_validate() can be removed because the
visitor covers it. Relatedly, the "net_client_types" array is reduced to
an array of init functions that can be directly indexed by opts->kind.
(Help text is available in the schema JSON.)
The outermost negation in the condition around qemu_find_vlan() was
flattened, because it expresses the dependent code's requirements more
clearly.
VLAN lookup is avoided if there's no init function to pass the VLAN to.
Whenever the value of type=... is needed, we substitute
NetClientOptionsKind_lookup[kind].
The individual init functions are not converted yet, thus the original
QemuOpts instance is passed transparently.
v1->v2:
- NetLegacy::name is optional. Tracked it through all init functions: they
all handle a NULL name. Updated commit message accordingly.
v2->v3:
- NetLegacy::id is allowed and takes precedence over NetLegacy::name.
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The only backend that really uses it is the socket one, which calls
monitor_get_fd(). But it can use 'cur_mon' instead.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
This patch corrects SDL support on X11 hosts using evdev. It's losely based
on the previous patch by Dustin Kirkland and the evdev support code in gtk-vnc
written by Daniel Berrange.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6678 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Vincenzo Maffione
Paolo Bonzini
Stefan Hajnoczi
Laszlo Ersek
Luiz Capitulino
Mark McLoughlin
aliguori
aurel32
bellard
j_mayer
ths
pbrook