This series of patches add RSS property support for virtio-net-pci.
Virtio RSS effectively works with TAP devices, it requires additional
vectors for VirtioNet, queues for TAP device, and vCPU cores.
Example of device configuration:
```
<interface type="network">
<mac address="52:54:00:c4:90:25"/>
<source network="default"/>
<model type="virtio"/>
<driver name="qemu" queues="9" rss="on"
rss_hash_report="off"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01"
slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</interface>
```
Capability "rss" enables RSS, "rss_hash_report" - enables hashes in
vheader.
Qemu uses eBPF program as RSS driver.
For loading RSS eBPF program, the helper is used.
Path to the helper is provided by Qemu through "query-helper-paths" qmp
command.
The helper "qemu-ebpf-rss-helper" is built with Qemu and may differ from build
to build.
So it's required that the Qemu should provide a proper helper path.
Libvirt would call the helper and receive the program and map fd through unix socket.
Fds would be passed to Qemu in "ebpf_rss_fds" property by passing to child
process or unix socket.
If libvirt would fail at helper call or Qemu didn't provide the path,
the Qemu would be launched without "ebpf_rss_fds" property.
Without "ebpf_rss_fds" property, Qemu would try to load eBPF program by
itself - usually, it would require additional system permissions.
Qemu may use "in-qemu" RSS as a fallback option, which will not require system
permissions, but doesn't work with vhost TAP.
Qemu patches:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-07/msg03535.html
Andrew Melnychenko (10):
domain_conf: Added configs for RSS and Hash report.
qemu_capabilities: Added capabilites for qemu's "rss" and
"hash".
qemu_command: Added "rss" and "hash" properties.
virsocket: Added receive for multiple fds.
qemu_capabilities: Added capability for qemu's "ebpf_rss_fds".
qemu_capabilities: Added capability for ebpf helper path.
qemu_interface: Added ebpf helper call.
qemu_command: Added ebpf RSS helper call for NIC creation.
qemu_hotplug: Added helper call for hotplug NIC.
docs: Added descriptions for "rss" and "rss_hash_report"
configurations.
docs/formatdomain.rst | 16 +++++++
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 31 +++++++++++++-
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 +
src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 +
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 5 +++
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++-
src/qemu/qemu_command.h | 2 +
src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 30 ++++++++++++-
src/qemu/qemu_interface.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++
src/qemu/qemu_interface.h | 2 +
src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 9 ++++
src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 3 ++
src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++
src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 3 ++
src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 16 +++++++
src/util/virsocket.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/util/virsocket.h | 2 +
18 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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2.31.1