linux-stable.git/include/linux/virtio_ring.h, branch linux-2.6.24.y

virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes

2007-11-12T02:59:40+00:00

The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

virtio: fix vring_init for 64 bits

2007-11-12T02:55:12+00:00

This patch fixes a typo in vring_init().  This happens to work today in lguest
because the sizeof(struct vring_desc) is 16 and struct vring contains 3
pointers and an unsigned int so on 32-bit
sizeof(struct vring_desc) == sizeof(struct vring).  However, this is no longer
true on 64-bit where the bug is exposed.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation

2007-10-23T05:49:55+00:00

These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
which want to use a ring for virtio.  Unlike the previous lguest
implementation:

1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements).
2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element.
3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
4) They no longer place used[] on a separate page, just a separate
   cacheline.
5) We do a modulo on a variable.  We could be tricky if we cared.
6) Interrupts and notifies are suppressed using flags within the rings.

Users need only get the ring pages and provide a notify hook (KVM
wants the guest to allocate the rings, lguest does it sanely).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Dor Laor