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Author SHA1 Message Date
Rusty Russell
34a48579e4 virtio: Tweak virtio_net defines
1) Turn GSO on virtio net into an all-or-nothing (keep checksumming
   separate).  Having multiple bits is a pain: if you can't support something
   you should handle it in software, which is still a performance win.

2) Make VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN a flag in the header, so it can apply to
   IPv6 or v4.

3) Rename VIRTIO_NET_F_NO_CSUM to VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM (ie. means we do
   checksumming).

4) Add csum and gso params to virtio_net to allow more testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:02 +11:00
Rusty Russell
50c8ea8080 virtio: Net header needs hdr_len
It's far easier to deal with packets if we don't have to parse the
packet to figure out the header length to know how much to pull into
the skb data.  Add the field to the virtio_net_hdr struct (and fix the
spaces that somehow crept in there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:02 +11:00
Rusty Russell
a586d4f601 virtio: simplify config mechanism.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:57 +11:00
Rusty Russell
296f96fcfc Net driver using virtio
The network driver uses two virtqueues: one for input packets and one
for output packets.  This has nice locking properties (ie. we don't do
any for recv vs send).

TODO:
	1) Big packets.
	2) Multi-client devices (maybe separate driver?).
	3) Resolve freeing of old xmit skbs (Christian Borntraeger)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00