This patch moves the initial guest page table creation code to the host,
so the launcher keeps working with PAE enabled configs.
Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This doesn't really matter, since lguest is i386 only at the moment,
but we could actually choose a different value. (lguest doesn't have
a guarenteed ABI).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This shows up when trying to bridge:
tap0: received packet with own address as source address
As Max Krasnyansky points out, there's no reason to give the guest the
same mac address as the TUN device.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
lguest uses a Waker process to break it out of the kernel (ie.
actually running the guest) when file descriptor needs attention.
Changing this from a process to a thread somewhat simplifies things:
it can directly access the fd_set of things to watch. More
importantly, it means that the Waker can see Guest memory correctly,
so /dev/vring file descriptors will work as anticipated (the
alternative is to actually mmap MAP_SHARED, but you can't do that with
/dev/zero).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Since the correct timeout value varies, use a heuristic which adjusts
the timeout depending on how many packets we've seen. This gives
slightly worse results, but doesn't need tweaking when GSO is
introduced.
500 usec 19.1887 xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
Dynamic (278) 20.1974 xmit 214510 recv 5 timeout 214491 usec 278
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
virtio_ring has the ability to suppress notifications. This prevents
a guest exit for every packet, but we need to set a timer on packet
receipt to re-check if there were any remaining packets.
Here are the times for 1G TCP Guest->Host with different timeout
settings (it matters because the TCP window doesn't grow big enough to
fill the entire buffer):
Timeout value Seconds Xmit/Recv/Timeout
None (before) 25.3784 xmit 7750233 recv 1
2500 usec 62.5119 xmit 207020 recv 2 timeout 207020
1000 usec 34.5379 xmit 207003 recv 2 timeout 207003
750 usec 29.2305 xmit 207002 recv 1 timeout 207002
500 usec 19.1887 xmit 561141 recv 1 timeout 559657
250 usec 20.0465 xmit 214128 recv 2 timeout 214110
100 usec 19.2583 xmit 561621 recv 1 timeout 560153
(Note that these values are sensitive to the GSO patches which come
later, and probably other traffic-related variables, so take with a
large grain of salt).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To simplify the transition to when we publish indices in the ring
(and make shuffling my patch queue easier), wrap them in a lg_last_avail()
macro.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is a simple patch to add support for the virtio "hardware random
generator" to lguest. It gets about 1.2 MB/sec reading from /dev/hwrng
in the guest.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
If you've got a nice DHCP configuration which maps MAC
addresses to specific IP addresses, then you're going to
want to start your guest with one of those MAC addresses.
Also, in Fedora, we have persistent network interface naming
based on the MAC address, so with randomly assigned
addresses you're soon going to hit eth13. Who knows what
will happen then!
Allow assigning a MAC address to the network interface with
e.g.
--tunnet=bridge:eth0:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D
or:
--tunnet=192.168.121.1:00:FF:95:6B:DA:3D
which is pretty unintelligable, but ...
(includes Rusty's minor rework)
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This is the lguest implementation of the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature.
It is currently only published for network devices, but it is turned on for
everyone.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This brings us closer to Real Life, where we'd examine the device
features once it's set the DRIVER_OK status bit.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.
Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some
rot and tighten some phrases.
Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mention the config options for the Virtio drivers and move the Virtualization
menu to the toplevel.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Matias Zabaljauregui
Rusty Russell
Uwe Hermann
Mark McLoughlin
Paul Bolle
Tim Ansell