Device trap has great impact on latency of real time (RT) tasks.
This patch provide a virtio poll mode to avoid trap.
According to the virtio spec, backend devices can declare the
notification is not needed so that frontend will never trap.
This means the backends make commitment to the frontends they have a
poll mechanism which don’t need any frontends notification.
This patch uses a periodic timer to give backends pseudo notifications
so that drive them processing data in their virtqueues. People should
choose a appropriate notification peroid interval to use this poll
mode. Too big interval may cause virtqueue processing latency while
too small interval may cause high SOS CPU usage. The suggested interval
is between 100us to 1ms.
The poll mode is not enabled by default and traditional trap
notification mode will be used. To use poll mode for RT with interval
1ms. You can add following acrn-dm parameter.
--virtio_poll 1000000
Tracked-On: #1956
Signed-off-by: Jie Deng <jie.deng@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>
This patch does:
- remove the unused API declaration
- fix use of uninitialized variable in instr_emul.c
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
The code in comments was removed from md_wrap.c, so modify comments
to avoid confusion
Tracked-On: #1966
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang G <gang.g.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Since "uint8_t page[CPU_PAGE_SIZE]" wants to ensure the first_page only
took PAGE_SIZE memory space and aligned to PAGE_SIZE. However, it couldn't.
So just make it simpler.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Li, Fei1 <fei1.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Qi, Yadong <yadong.qi@intel.com>
This patch adds more comment to describe functions that are
interfaces to the other modules in the hypervisor. The comments
are in doxygen-style for document generation.
Tracked-On: #1595
Signed-off-by: Li, Fei1 <fei1.li@intel.com>
To kick off the efforts on modularization, this patch introduces a document
describing the goals and general principles of modular design as well as a brief
introduction on the current status of component/module decomposition.
A detailed assignment of source files to components will be added in the future.
v2 -> v3:
* Expand mailing list address in the doc
v1 -> v2:
* Add more description on complexity measures, cyclic dependency avoidance, and
the reverse dependency of boot on hypervisor initialzation.
* Fix typos.
Tracked-On: #1842
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
1. No more mount needed, use the directory "/boot/efi"
2. The kernel of UOS stored in "~/uos-kernel-build"
3. (Pending) the image of UOS stored in "~/" or "/root"
This patch adds the necessary space before or after binary operator.
v1 -> v2:
* minor fix related to integer
[i - 1] ====> [i - 1U]
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
The function not used in extern c file, must add static.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Huihuang Shi <huihuang.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
The result of evaluate expression,it's type should be boolean.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Huihuang Shi <huihuang.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Input parameter of mmio_write64/mmio_write32/mmio_write16/mmio_write8
should be 'void *addr' rather than 'const void *addr' since the object
pointed by 'addr' is modified in these operations.
This patch change the param type of mmio_write** and update its usage
accordingly.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Li, Fei1 <fei1.li@intel.com>
replace CPU_PAGE_MASK with PAGE_MASK
These two MACROs are duplicated and PAGE_MASK is a more reasonable name.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
- replace CPU_PAGE_SHIFT with PAGE_SHIFT
These two MACROs are duplicated and PAGE_SHIFT is a more
reasonable name.
- remove unused MACROs related to page shift in cpu.h
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
replace CPU_PAGE_SIZE with PAGE_SIZE
These two MACROs are duplicated and PAGE_SIZE is a more reasonable name.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
separate the function definitions into debug/release directories
to better distinguish debug/release libraries
v1 -> v2:
- sbuf_get is defined in 'debug/sbuf.c' but not used anywhere.
remove the declaration in 'include/debug/sbuf.h' and keep the
definition in 'debug/sbuf.c' in case it will used later.
- sbuf_put and sbuf_share_setup is not used under RELEASE version.
remove the file 'release/sbuf.c'.
Tracked-On: #861
Signed-off-by: Shiqing Gao <shiqing.gao@intel.com>
now hypervisor will support to hide ignored PCI device from SOS,
it doesn't need pass the boot args to SOS.
Tracked-On: #1923
Signed-off-by: Minggui Cao <minggui.cao@intel.com>
now hypervisor will support to hide ignored PCI device from SOS,
it need not modify SOS PCI driver to support this feature.
Tracked-On: #1923
Signed-off-by: Minggui Cao <minggui.cao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
