vhost_vdpa: support doorbell mapping via mmap
Currently the doorbell is relayed via eventfd which may have
significant overhead because of the cost of vmexits or syscall. This
patch introduces mmap() based doorbell mapping which can eliminate the
overhead caused by vmexit or syscall.
To ease the userspace modeling of the doorbell layout (usually
virtio-pci), this patch starts from a doorbell per page
model. Vhost-vdpa only support the hardware doorbell that sit at the
boundary of a page and does not share the page with other registers.
Doorbell of each virtqueue must be mapped separately, pgoff is the
index of the virtqueue. This allows userspace to map a subset of the
doorbell which may be useful for the implementation of software
assisted virtqueue (control vq) in the future.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200529080303.15449-5-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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