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e5dc0b40 02/01/2013 07:03 pm Jason Wang

tap: introduce a helper to get the name of an interface

This patch introduces a helper tap_get_ifname() to get the device name of tap
device. This is needed when ifname is unspecified in the command line and qemu
were asked to create tap device by itself. In this situation, the name were...
264986e2 02/01/2013 07:03 pm Jason Wang

tap: multiqueue support

Recently, linux support multiqueue tap which could let userspace call TUNSETIFF
for a signle device many times to create multiple file descriptors as
independent queues. User could also enable/disabe a specific queue through
TUNSETQUEUE....
94fdc6d0 02/01/2013 07:03 pm Jason Wang

tap: add Linux multiqueue support

This patch add basic multiqueue support for Linux. When multiqueue is needed, we
will first check whether kernel support multiqueue tap before creating more
queues. Two new functions tap_fd_enable() and tap_fd_disable() were introduced...
1422e32d 12/19/2012 09:31 am Paolo Bonzini

net: reorganize headers

Move public headers to include/net, and leave private headers in net/.
Put the virtio headers in include/net/tap.h, removing the multiple copies
that existed. Leave include/net/tap.h as the interface for NICs, and
net/tap_int.h as the interface for OS-specific parts of the tap backend....