vhost-net: create vhost based Net backend #4461
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vhost-net: create vhost based Net backend
This patch adds a second backend to Net devices. It can be enabled with 'vhost'
bool on the network interface config, like this:
Vhost backend opens host kernel /dev/vhost-net interface, and performs
a setup dance to setup the vhost device with the relevant tap
interface. The effect is that all of the data plane goes directly
between host kernel and the guest. The data doesn't go via
firecracker VMM at all. This drastically reduces the packet latency
and increases throughput, especially in a high-pps scenarios. For
example UDP and TCP without offloads.
The control plane is somewhat hacky. Technically, the interrupts from
host to guest should go through firecracker VMM, but this is avoidable
by splicing the host eventfd into the guest interruptfd, and
force-returning VIRTIO_MMIO_INT_VRING in the relevant virtio register.
There are couple of missing features:
On the latter point, it would be nice to negotiate some more advanced
tap/vhost features, like USO (UDP segmentation offload), TCP offloads
(flag needed if guest wants to use XDP), VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF (this
might be useful for performance, but benchmarks needed first). Right
now there is no way to express these toggles in the net config, but
this can be done in the future.
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