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Virtio interface This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O mechanisms. It will no-doubt need further enhancement. The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked. There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query to get setup information from the host. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2007-10-22 01:03:36 +00:00
# Virtio always gets selected by whoever wants it.
config VIRTIO
virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules This is needed for the virtio PCI device to be compiled as a module. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-05 04:50:05 +00:00
tristate
Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation 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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
2007-10-22 01:03:40 +00:00
# Similarly the virtio ring implementation.
config VIRTIO_RING
virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules This is needed for the virtio PCI device to be compiled as a module. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-05 04:50:05 +00:00
tristate
Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation 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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
2007-10-22 01:03:40 +00:00
depends on VIRTIO
virtio: PCI device This is a PCI device that implements a transport for virtio. It allows virtio devices to be used by QEMU based VMMs like KVM or Xen. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-13 03:30:26 +00:00
config VIRTIO_PCI
tristate "PCI driver for virtio devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
select VIRTIO
select VIRTIO_RING
---help---
This drivers provides support for virtio based paravirtual device
drivers over PCI. This requires that your VMM has appropriate PCI
virtio backends. Most QEMU based VMMs should support these devices
(like KVM or Xen).
Currently, the ABI is not considered stable so there is no guarantee
that this version of the driver will work with your VMM.
If unsure, say M.