1. 05 Feb, 2009 1 commit
    • Alex Williamson's avatar
      virtio_net: Add a virtqueue for outbound control commands · 2a41f71d
      Alex Williamson authored
      This will be used for RX mode, MAC filter table, VLAN filtering, etc...
      
      The control transaction consists of one or more "out" sg entries and
      one or more "in" sg entries.  The first out entry contains a header
      defining the class and command.  Additional out entries may provide
      data for the command.  The last in entry provides a status response
      back from the command.
      
      Virtqueues typically run asynchronous, running a callback function
      when there's data in the channel.  We can't readily make use of this
      in the command paths where we need to use this.  Instead, we kick
      the virtqueue and spin.  The kick causes an I/O write, triggering an
      immediate trap into the hypervisor.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2a41f71d
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