macvtap: Implement multiqueue for macvtap driver
Implement multiqueue facility for macvtap driver. The idea is that
a macvtap device can be opened multiple times and the fd's can be
used to register eg, as backend for vhost.
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
index 35280b3..8a2fd66 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
unsigned long rx_errors;
};
+/*
+ * Maximum times a macvtap device can be opened. This can be used to
+ * configure the number of receive queue, e.g. for multiqueue virtio.
+ */
+#define MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES (NR_CPUS < 16 ? NR_CPUS : 16)
+
struct macvlan_dev {
struct net_device *dev;
struct list_head list;
@@ -50,7 +56,8 @@
enum macvlan_mode mode;
int (*receive)(struct sk_buff *skb);
int (*forward)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
- struct macvtap_queue *tap;
+ struct macvtap_queue *taps[MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES];
+ int numvtaps;
};
static inline void macvlan_count_rx(const struct macvlan_dev *vlan,