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![]() Current code that handles Tx buffer desciprtor ring scanning employs the following algorithm: 1. Restore current buffer descriptor pointer from TBPTRn 2. Process current descriptor 3. If current descriptor has BD_WRAP flag set set current descriptor pointer to start of the descriptor ring 4. If current descriptor points to start of the ring exit the loop, otherwise increment current descriptor pointer and go to #2 5. Store current descriptor in TBPTRn The way the code is implemented results in buffer descriptor ring being scanned starting at offset/descriptor #0. While covering 99% of the cases, this algorithm becomes problematic for a number of edge cases. Consider the following scenario: guest OS driver initializes descriptor ring to N individual descriptors and starts sending data out. Depending on the volume of traffic and probably guest OS driver implementation it is possible that an edge case where a packet, spread across 2 descriptors is placed in descriptors N - 1 and 0 in that order(it is easy to imagine similar examples involving more than 2 descriptors). What happens then is aforementioned algorithm starts at descriptor 0, sees a descriptor marked as BD_LAST, which it happily sends out as a separate packet(very much malformed at this point) then the iteration continues and the first part of the original packet is tacked to the next transmission which ends up being bogus as well. This behvaiour can be pretty reliably observed when scp'ing data from a guest OS via TAP interface for files larger than 160K (every time for 700K+). This patch changes the scanning algorithm to do the following: 1. Restore "current" buffer descriptor pointer from TBPTRn 2. If "current" descriptor does not have BD_TX_READY set, goto #6 3. Process current descriptor 4. If "current" descriptor has BD_WRAP flag set "current" descriptor pointer to start of the descriptor ring otherwise set increment "current" by the size of one descriptor 5. Goto #1 6. Save "current" buffer descriptor in TBPTRn This way we preserve the information about which descriptor was processed last and always start where we left off avoiding the original problem. On top of that, judging by the following excerpt from MPC8548ERM (p. 14-48): "... When the end of the TxBD ring is reached, eTSEC initializes TBPTRn to the value in the corresponding TBASEn. The TBPTR register is internally written by the eTSEC’s DMA controller during transmission. The pointer increments by eight (bytes) each time a descriptor is closed successfully by the eTSEC..." revised algorithm might also a more correct way of emulating this aspect of eTSEC peripheral. Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> |
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README
QEMU README =========== QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and virtualizer. QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board). QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation. QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API. It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager. QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file. Building ======== QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are: mkdir build cd build ../configure make Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website: http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32 Submitting patches ================== The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system. git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files. Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via the QEMU website http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches Bug reporting ============= The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources should be reported via: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/ If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be reported via launchpad. For additional information on bug reporting consult: http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug Contact ======= The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two main methods being email and IRC - qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel - #qemu on irc.oftc.net Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be found online via the QEMU website: http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere -- End