qemu-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.9?] tap-win32: don't abort in tap_enable()


From: Jason Wang
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.9?] tap-win32: don't abort in tap_enable(); enables -netdev tap
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:48:29 +0800
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0



On 2017年03月29日 12:13, Andrew Baumann via Qemu-devel wrote:
From: Jason Wang [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:39

On 2017年03月29日 02:55, Andrew Baumann wrote:
From: Stefan Weil [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 11:28
Am 25.03.2017 um 00:46 schrieb Andrew Baumann:
The docs generally steer users away from using the legacy -net
parameter, however on win32 attempting to enable a tap device using
-netdev tap fails at an abort() in tap_enable(). Removing the abort()s
seems to be enough to get everything working, so do that.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Baumann<address@hidden>
[...]
Jason, what is the use of tap_enable, tap_disable?
It should be only used when we want to enable and disable a specific
queue of a multiqueue supported tap.

   Is it fine
to simply do nothing on Windows here?
Unless windows support multiqueue tap, we should keep the assert here.

I was also hoping for a review -- I'm no expert on this stuff either, but my
quick reading of those code paths is that they issue ioctls to enable/disable
packet reception on the underlying tap device. As win32 TAP is implemented,
that is already enabled from start of day.
It's possible this patch still does not permit dynamic reconfiguration of tap
devices (e.g. from the monitor console). However, it does work with the -
netdev tap option on the command-line.
And is this something for QEMU‌ 2.9 (I added question to subject line)?
Ideally, yes. If not, -netdev tap will continue to blow up in the abort as it 
does
today...
Andrew
Yes, so the problem is we should prevent tap_enable() and tap_disable()
from being called if multiqueue is disabled.

I believe the following patch can fix this issue, could you give a try
on this?

diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
index c321680..7d091c9 100644
--- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
@@ -510,6 +510,10 @@ static int peer_attach(VirtIONet *n, int index)
           return 0;
       }

+    if (n->max_queues == 1) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
       return tap_enable(nc->peer);
   }

Yep, this works. Thanks!

Andrew

Thanks, queued this for 2.9.



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]