This implements vhost: a kernel-level backend for virtio, The main motivation for this work is to reduce virtualization overhead for virtio by removing system calls on data path, without guest changes. For virtio-net, this removes up to 4 system calls per packet: vm exit for kick, reentry for kick, iothread wakeup for packet, interrupt injection for packet. Some more detailed description attached to the patch itself. The patches are against 2.6.31-rc4. I'd like them to go into linux-next and down the road 2.6.32 if possible. Please comment. Changes from v1: - Move use_mm/unuse_mm from fs/aio.c to mm instead of copying. - Reorder code to avoid need for forward declarations - Kill a couple of debugging printks Michael S. Tsirkin (2): mm: export use_mm/unuse_mm to modules vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server MAINTAINERS | 10 + arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/vhost/Makefile | 2 + drivers/vhost/net.c | 411 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 663 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 108 +++++++ fs/aio.c | 47 +--- include/linux/Kbuild | 1 + include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + include/linux/mmu_context.h | 9 + include/linux/vhost.h | 100 +++++++ mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/mmu_context.c | 58 ++++ 15 files changed, 1378 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/Kconfig create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/net.c create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/vhost.c create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/vhost.h create mode 100644 include/linux/mmu_context.h create mode 100644 include/linux/vhost.h create mode 100644 mm/mmu_context.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
