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Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue
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Laszlo Ersek |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue? |
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Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:45:35 +0200 |
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On 08/28/13 11:22, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> Hi Stefan:
> I think you mention the descriptor address? I mean the vring PFN register.
> /* A 32-bit r/w PFN for the currently selected queue */
> #define VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_PFN 8
>
> And the linux driver sample code:
> iowrite32(virt_to_phys(info->queue) >> VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_ADDR_SHIFT,
> vp_dev->ioaddr + VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_PFN);
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 4:07 PM
> To: Xie, Huawei
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; Stefan Hajnoczi
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring
> virtqueue?
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:18:39AM +0000, Xie, Huawei wrote:
>> I am developing virtio user space poll mode network driver. We allocate
>> vring physical memory from huge page. On VMs with less than 4GB memory, it
>> works well. But on VMs with like 8GB memory, huge page are all allocated
>> from high end memory.
>> So would virtio support 64bit address for vring virtqueue?
>
> The vring takes guest physical addresses and the C type is __u64 (see
> /usr/include/linux/virtio_ring.h). 64-bit addresses are fine.
If you mean Queue Address field in the Virtio Header (section 2.2.2 in
the virtio-0.9.5 specification), then please see 2.3 Virtqueue
Configuration, step 3. You have to divide the guest-phys address by 4096
and store the quotient. The Queue Address field takes a page frame
number, not a page frame address.
This allows it to address up to 2^32 * 4096 == 16T bytes of RAM.
Laszlo
- [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Xie, Huawei, 2013/08/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Xie, Huawei, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?,
Laszlo Ersek <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Christian Borntraeger, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Xie, Huawei, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Anthony Liguori, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, H. Peter Anvin, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Anthony Liguori, 2013/08/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Richard Henderson, 2013/08/28
Re: [Qemu-devel] Would virtio support 64 bit address for vring virtqueue?, Xie, Huawei, 2013/08/28