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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2010-03-17 13:08:24 +0200
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2010-04-01 13:56:43 -0500
commit82b0d80ef6a37b46bac1311c31935dc130a5a703 (patch)
treeca955498bd7a81e437608f83907572a8ef9f98f1 /net.c
parentd59700553ecbf052cce1e099e8f4dae2704fe424 (diff)
tap: add vhost/vhostfd options
This adds vhost binary option to tap, to enable vhost net accelerator. Default is off for now, we'll be able to make default on long term when we know it's stable. vhostfd option can be used by management, to pass in the fd. Assigning vhostfd implies vhost=on. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net.c')
-rw-r--r--net.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
index 1092bdcaa..3ede738ca 100644
--- a/net.c
+++ b/net.c
@@ -976,6 +976,14 @@ static const struct {
.name = "vnet_hdr",
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
.help = "enable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag on the tap interface"
+ }, {
+ .name = "vhost",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ .help = "enable vhost-net network accelerator",
+ }, {
+ .name = "vhostfd",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ .help = "file descriptor of an already opened vhost net device",
},
#endif /* _WIN32 */
{ /* end of list */ }