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| author | Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> | 2019-01-23 10:50:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2019-01-24 16:15:42 +0100 |
| commit | 45383fb0f42db3945ac6cc658704706cdae19528 (patch) | |
| tree | b25548cd2da896976f1cf718b4b97fd67efece92 /include | |
| parent | Linux 5.0-rc3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-45383fb0f42db3945ac6cc658704706cdae19528.tar.xz linux-45383fb0f42db3945ac6cc658704706cdae19528.zip | |
virtio: support VIRTIO_F_ORDER_PLATFORM
This patch introduces the support for VIRTIO_F_ORDER_PLATFORM.
If this feature is negotiated, the driver must use the barriers
suitable for hardware devices. Otherwise, the device and driver
are assumed to be implemented in software, that is they can be
assumed to run on identical CPUs in an SMP configuration. Thus
a weaker form of memory barriers is sufficient to yield better
performance.
It is recommended that an add-in card based PCI device offers
this feature for portability. The device will fail to operate
further or will operate in a slower emulation mode if this
feature is offered but not accepted.
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h index 1196e1c1d4f6..ff8e7dc9d4dd 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ #define VIRTIO_F_RING_PACKED 34 /* + * This feature indicates that memory accesses by the driver and the + * device are ordered in a way described by the platform. + */ +#define VIRTIO_F_ORDER_PLATFORM 36 + +/* * Does the device support Single Root I/O Virtualization? */ #define VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV 37 |