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author | Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> | 2018-01-16 14:08:56 +0800 |
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committer | Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> | 2018-02-08 09:22:03 +0800 |
commit | 23d0ba9319f182e258f480bafb7de9f79fb6e0e9 (patch) | |
tree | 7e34126e19e9622444f720e5c89dbfd94cbc3cd8 /include/block | |
parent | bdd6a90a9e5fe22201dce84aea60ac08197e2c63 (diff) | |
download | qemu-23d0ba9319f182e258f480bafb7de9f79fb6e0e9.tar.gz |
block: Introduce buf register API
Allow block driver to map and unmap a buffer for later I/O, as a performance
hint.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180116060901.17413-5-famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/block')
-rw-r--r-- | include/block/block.h | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | include/block/block_int.h | 9 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h index 9b12774ddf..2025d7ed19 100644 --- a/include/block/block.h +++ b/include/block/block.h @@ -631,5 +631,14 @@ void bdrv_del_child(BlockDriverState *parent, BdrvChild *child, Error **errp); bool bdrv_can_store_new_dirty_bitmap(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *name, uint32_t granularity, Error **errp); - +/** + * + * bdrv_register_buf/bdrv_unregister_buf: + * + * Register/unregister a buffer for I/O. For example, VFIO drivers are + * interested to know the memory areas that would later be used for I/O, so + * that they can prepare IOMMU mapping etc., to get better performance. + */ +void bdrv_register_buf(BlockDriverState *bs, void *host, size_t size); +void bdrv_unregister_buf(BlockDriverState *bs, void *host); #endif diff --git a/include/block/block_int.h b/include/block/block_int.h index 29cafa4236..99b9190627 100644 --- a/include/block/block_int.h +++ b/include/block/block_int.h @@ -446,6 +446,15 @@ struct BlockDriver { const char *name, Error **errp); + /** + * Register/unregister a buffer for I/O. For example, when the driver is + * interested to know the memory areas that will later be used in iovs, so + * that it can do IOMMU mapping with VFIO etc., in order to get better + * performance. In the case of VFIO drivers, this callback is used to do + * DMA mapping for hot buffers. + */ + void (*bdrv_register_buf)(BlockDriverState *bs, void *host, size_t size); + void (*bdrv_unregister_buf)(BlockDriverState *bs, void *host); QLIST_ENTRY(BlockDriver) list; }; |