From 57f0f512b273f60d52568b8c6b77e17f5636edc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: André Fabian Silva Delgado Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:04:01 -0300 Subject: Initial import --- include/xen/interface/io/netif.h | 262 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 262 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/xen/interface/io/netif.h (limited to 'include/xen/interface/io/netif.h') diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..70054cc07 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h @@ -0,0 +1,262 @@ +/****************************************************************************** + * netif.h + * + * Unified network-device I/O interface for Xen guest OSes. + * + * Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Keir Fraser + */ + +#ifndef __XEN_PUBLIC_IO_NETIF_H__ +#define __XEN_PUBLIC_IO_NETIF_H__ + +#include +#include + +/* + * Older implementation of Xen network frontend / backend has an + * implicit dependency on the MAX_SKB_FRAGS as the maximum number of + * ring slots a skb can use. Netfront / netback may not work as + * expected when frontend and backend have different MAX_SKB_FRAGS. + * + * A better approach is to add mechanism for netfront / netback to + * negotiate this value. However we cannot fix all possible + * frontends, so we need to define a value which states the minimum + * slots backend must support. + * + * The minimum value derives from older Linux kernel's MAX_SKB_FRAGS + * (18), which is proved to work with most frontends. Any new backend + * which doesn't negotiate with frontend should expect frontend to + * send a valid packet using slots up to this value. + */ +#define XEN_NETIF_NR_SLOTS_MIN 18 + +/* + * Notifications after enqueuing any type of message should be conditional on + * the appropriate req_event or rsp_event field in the shared ring. + * If the client sends notification for rx requests then it should specify + * feature 'feature-rx-notify' via xenbus. Otherwise the backend will assume + * that it cannot safely queue packets (as it may not be kicked to send them). + */ + + /* + * "feature-split-event-channels" is introduced to separate guest TX + * and RX notificaion. Backend either doesn't support this feature or + * advertise it via xenstore as 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled). + * + * To make use of this feature, frontend should allocate two event + * channels for TX and RX, advertise them to backend as + * "event-channel-tx" and "event-channel-rx" respectively. If frontend + * doesn't want to use this feature, it just writes "event-channel" + * node as before. + */ + +/* + * Multiple transmit and receive queues: + * If supported, the backend will write the key "multi-queue-max-queues" to + * the directory for that vif, and set its value to the maximum supported + * number of queues. + * Frontends that are aware of this feature and wish to use it can write the + * key "multi-queue-num-queues", set to the number they wish to use, which + * must be greater than zero, and no more than the value reported by the backend + * in "multi-queue-max-queues". + * + * Queues replicate the shared rings and event channels. + * "feature-split-event-channels" may optionally be used when using + * multiple queues, but is not mandatory. + * + * Each queue consists of one shared ring pair, i.e. there must be the same + * number of tx and rx rings. + * + * For frontends requesting just one queue, the usual event-channel and + * ring-ref keys are written as before, simplifying the backend processing + * to avoid distinguishing between a frontend that doesn't understand the + * multi-queue feature, and one that does, but requested only one queue. + * + * Frontends requesting two or more queues must not write the toplevel + * event-channel (or event-channel-{tx,rx}) and {tx,rx}-ring-ref keys, + * instead writing those keys under sub-keys having the name "queue-N" where + * N is the integer ID of the queue for which those keys belong. Queues + * are indexed from zero. For example, a frontend with two queues and split + * event channels must write the following set of queue-related keys: + * + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/multi-queue-num-queues = "2" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-0 = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-0/tx-ring-ref = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-0/rx-ring-ref = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-0/event-channel-tx = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-0/event-channel-rx = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-1 = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-1/tx-ring-ref = "" + * /local/domain/1/device/vif/0/queue-1/rx-ring-ref = "