virtio: backend virtqueue notifier masking

some backends (notably vhost) can mask events
at their source in a way that is more efficient
than masking through kvm.
Specifically
- masking in kvm uses rcu write side so it has high latency
- in kvm on unmask we always send an interrupt
masking at source does not have these issues.

Add such support in virtio.h and use in virtio-pci.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Michael S. Tsirkin 2012-12-24 17:35:27 +02:00
parent 774345f981
commit f1d0f15a6d
2 changed files with 83 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -126,6 +126,19 @@ struct VirtIODevice
void (*set_config)(VirtIODevice *vdev, const uint8_t *config);
void (*reset)(VirtIODevice *vdev);
void (*set_status)(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t val);
/* Test and clear event pending status.
* Should be called after unmask to avoid losing events.
* If backend does not support masking,
* must check in frontend instead.
*/
bool (*guest_notifier_pending)(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n);
/* Mask/unmask events from this vq. Any events reported
* while masked will become pending.
* If backend does not support masking,
* must mask in frontend instead.
*/
void (*guest_notifier_mask)(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n, bool mask);
VirtQueue *vq;
const VirtIOBindings *binding;
DeviceState *binding_opaque;