vhost_net: basic polling support

This patch tries to poll for new added tx buffer or socket receive
queue for a while at the end of tx/rx processing. The maximum time
spent on polling were specified through a new kind of vring ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
index ab3731917bac..61a8777178c6 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vhost.h
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ struct vhost_memory {
 #define VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x21, struct vhost_vring_file)
 /* Set eventfd to signal an error */
 #define VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x22, struct vhost_vring_file)
+/* Set busy loop timeout (in us) */
+#define VHOST_SET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x23,       \
+                                         struct vhost_vring_state)
+/* Get busy loop timeout (in us) */
+#define VHOST_GET_VRING_BUSYLOOP_TIMEOUT _IOW(VHOST_VIRTIO, 0x24,       \
+                                         struct vhost_vring_state)
 
 /* VHOST_NET specific defines */