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Linus Torvalds f0691533b7 virtio/vhost: new features, performance improvements, cleanups
This adds basic polling support for vhost.
 Reworks virtio to optionally use DMA API, fixing it on Xen.
 Balloon stats gained a new entry.
 Using the new napi_alloc_skb speeds up virtio net.
 virtio blk stats can now be read while another VCPU
 us busy inflating or deflating the balloon.
 Plus misc cleanups in various places.
 
 Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost

Pull virtio/vhost updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "New features, performance improvements, cleanups:

   - basic polling support for vhost
   - rework virtio to optionally use DMA API, fixing it on Xen
   - balloon stats gained a new entry
   - using the new napi_alloc_skb speeds up virtio net
   - virtio blk stats can now be read while another VCPU is busy
     inflating or deflating the balloon

  plus misc cleanups in various places"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() with napi_alloc_skb()
  vhost_net: basic polling support
  vhost: introduce vhost_vq_avail_empty()
  vhost: introduce vhost_has_work()
  virtio_balloon: Allow to resize and update the balloon stats in parallel
  virtio_balloon: Use a workqueue instead of "vballoon" kthread
  virtio/s390: size of SET_IND payload
  virtio/s390: use dev_to_virtio
  vhost: rename vhost_init_used()
  vhost: rename cross-endian helpers
  virtio_blk: VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE->VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH
  vring: Use the DMA API on Xen
  virtio_pci: Use the DMA API if enabled
  virtio_mmio: Use the DMA API if enabled
  virtio: Add improved queue allocation API
  virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs
  vring: Introduce vring_use_dma_api()
  s390/dma: Allow per device dma ops
  alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops
  dma: Provide simple noop dma ops
2016-03-20 13:28:18 -07:00
..
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-03-16 10:47:45 -07:00
char TTY/Serial patches for 4.6-rc1 2016-03-17 13:53:25 -07:00
cio s390: Use pr_warn instead of pr_warning 2016-03-07 13:12:04 +01:00
crypto s390/zcrypt: Fix cryptographic device id in kernel messages 2016-01-26 12:46:58 +01:00
net s390: Use pr_warn instead of pr_warning 2016-03-07 13:12:04 +01:00
scsi Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-03 15:46:07 -07:00
virtio virtio/s390: size of SET_IND payload 2016-03-02 18:08:59 +02:00
Makefile virtio/s390: rename drivers/s390/kvm -> drivers/s390/virtio 2015-07-07 14:27:06 +03:00