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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/6] virtio: use ioeventfd in TCG and qtest mode


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH 0/6] virtio: use ioeventfd in TCG and qtest mode
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:27:16 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:47:18PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> This patch series fixes qemu-iotests 068.  Since commit
> ea4f3cebc4e0224605ab9dd9724aa4e7768fe372 ("qemu-iotests: 068: test iothread
> mode") the test case has attempted to use dataplane without -M accel=kvm.
> Although QEMU is capable of running TCG or qtest with emulated ioeventfd/irqfd
> we haven't enabled it yet.
> 
> Unfortunately the virtio test cases fail when ioeventfd is enabled in qtest
> mode.  This is because they make assumptions about virtqueue ISR signalling.
> They assume that a request is completed when ISR becomes 1.  However, the ISR
> can be set to 1 even though no new request has completed since commit
> 83d768b5640946b7da55ce8335509df297e2c7cd "virtio: set ISR on dataplane
> notifications".
> 
> This issue is solved by introducing a proper qvirtqueue_get_buf() API (similar
> to the Linux guest drivers) instead of making assumptions about the ISR.  Most
> of the patches update the test cases to use the new API.
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi (6):
>   libqos: fix typo in virtio.h QVirtQueue->used comment
>   libqos: add virtio used ring support
>   tests: fix virtio-scsi-test ISR dependence
>   tests: fix virtio-blk-test ISR dependence
>   tests: fix virtio-net-test ISR dependence
>   virtio-pci: use ioeventfd even when KVM is disabled
> 
>  tests/libqos/virtio.h    |  8 ++++++-
>  hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c   |  2 +-
>  tests/libqos/virtio.c    | 60 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/virtio-blk-test.c  | 27 ++++++++++++++--------
>  tests/virtio-net-test.c  |  6 ++---
>  tests/virtio-scsi-test.c |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.4
> 

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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