tap: multiqueue support

Recently, linux support multiqueue tap which could let userspace call TUNSETIFF
for a signle device many times to create multiple file descriptors as
independent queues. User could also enable/disabe a specific queue through
TUNSETQUEUE.

The patch adds the generic infrastructure to create multiqueue taps. To achieve
this a new parameter "queues" were introduced to specify how many queues were
expected to be created for tap by qemu itself. Alternatively, management could
also pass multiple pre-created tap file descriptors separated with ':' through a
new parameter fds like -netdev tap,id=hn0,fds="X:Y:..:Z". Multiple vhost file
descriptors could also be passed in this way.

Each TAPState were still associated to a tap fd, which mean multiple TAPStates
were created when user needs multiqueue taps. Since each TAPState contains one
NetClientState, with the multiqueue nic support, an N peers of NetClientState
were built up.

A new parameter, mq_required were introduce in tap_open() to create multiqueue
tap fds.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tap.h b/include/net/tap.h
index c3eb85a..a994f20 100644
--- a/include/net/tap.h
+++ b/include/net/tap.h
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ void tap_set_offload(NetClientState *nc, int csum, int tso4, int tso6, int ecn,
 void tap_set_vnet_hdr_len(NetClientState *nc, int len);
 int tap_enable(NetClientState *nc);
 int tap_disable(NetClientState *nc);
-int tap_get_ifname(NetClientState *nc, char *ifname);
 
 int tap_get_fd(NetClientState *nc);