Re: [PATCH V3 11/11] vhost: allow userspace to create workers

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 12:19:11AM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
> index c998860d7bbc..e5c0669430e5 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
> @@ -70,6 +70,17 @@
>  #define VHOST_VRING_BIG_ENDIAN 1
>  #define VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x13, struct vhost_vring_state)
>  #define VHOST_GET_VRING_ENDIAN _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x14, struct vhost_vring_state)
> +/* By default, a device gets one vhost_worker created during VHOST_SET_OWNER
> + * that its virtqueues share. This allows userspace to create a vhost_worker
> + * and map a virtqueue to it or map a virtqueue to an existing worker.
> + *
> + * If pid > 0 and it matches an existing vhost_worker thread it will be bound
> + * to the vq. If pid is VHOST_VRING_NEW_WORKER, then a new worker will be
> + * created and bound to the vq.
> + *
> + * This must be called after VHOST_SET_OWNER and before the vq is active.
> + */
> +#define VHOST_SET_VRING_WORKER _IOWR(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x15, struct vhost_vring_worker)

Please clarify whether or not multiple devices can attach vqs to the same worker.

Stefan

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux