Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation

These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
which want to use a ring for virtio.  Unlike the previous lguest
implementation:

1) The rings are variable sized (2^n-1 elements).
2) They have an unfortunate limit of 65535 bytes per sg element.
3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
4) They no longer place used[] on a separate page, just a separate
   cacheline.
5) We do a modulo on a variable.  We could be tricky if we cared.
6) Interrupts and notifies are suppressed using flags within the rings.

Users need only get the ring pages and provide a notify hook (KVM
wants the guest to allocate the rings, lguest does it sanely).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
index bce84b56a659..9e33fc4da875 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
 # Virtio always gets selected by whoever wants it.
 config VIRTIO
         bool
+
+# Similarly the virtio ring implementation.
+config VIRTIO_RING
+        bool
+        depends on VIRTIO