Commit 3587f82a683122e25da59e1e81150ffde313e54f

Authored by aurel32
1 parent 7aa763c7

qemu: generate signals on tap I/O

Currently tap does not generate signals on I/O; this causes
network latency to be dependent on the timer tick (1ms without
dyntick, guest dependent with dyntick).  By generating a signal
on I/O, we can inform the guest immediately that a packet has
arrived.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5688 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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... ... @@ -622,6 +622,8 @@ static void tap_send(void *opaque)
622 622  
623 623 /* fd support */
624 624  
  625 +void enable_sigio_timer(int fd);
  626 +
625 627 static TAPState *net_tap_fd_init(VLANState *vlan, int fd)
626 628 {
627 629 TAPState *s;
... ... @@ -630,6 +632,7 @@ static TAPState *net_tap_fd_init(VLANState *vlan, int fd)
630 632 if (!s)
631 633 return NULL;
632 634 s->fd = fd;
  635 + enable_sigio_timer(fd);
633 636 s->vc = qemu_new_vlan_client(vlan, tap_receive, NULL, s);
634 637 qemu_set_fd_handler(s->fd, tap_send, NULL, s);
635 638 snprintf(s->vc->info_str, sizeof(s->vc->info_str), "tap: fd=%d", fd);
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... ... @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static int fcntl_setfl(int fd, int flag)
1403 1403  
1404 1404 #define RTC_FREQ 1024
1405 1405  
1406   -static void enable_sigio_timer(int fd)
  1406 +void enable_sigio_timer(int fd)
1407 1407 {
1408 1408 struct sigaction act;
1409 1409  
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