From 8389fb9112bcf96def69539fa1de13a7a08923f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Damjan Marion Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:29:53 +0200 Subject: virtio: fast TAP interfaces with vhost-net backend Change-Id: Ided667356d5c6fb9648eb34685aabd6b16a598b7 Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion Signed-off-by: Steven Luong --- src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 94 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api (limited to 'src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api') diff --git a/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api b/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e1592cf7d61 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/vnet/devices/virtio/tapv2.api @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +/* + * Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. + * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + * You may obtain a copy of the License at: + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +/** \file + + This file defines vpe control-plane API messages for + the Linux kernel TAP device driver +*/ + +vl_api_version 1.0.0 + +/** \brief Initialize a new tap interface with the given paramters + @param client_index - opaque cookie to identify the sender + @param context - sender context, to match reply w/ request + @param use_random_mac - let the system generate a unique mac address + @param tap_name - name to associate with the new interface + @param mac_address - mac addr to assign to the interface if use_radom not set + @param net_ns_set - net_ns is entered + @param net_ns - netlink name space + @param tx_ring_sz - the number of entries of TX ring + @param rx_ring_sz - the number of entries of RX ring +*/ +define tap_create_v2 +{ + u32 client_index; + u32 context; + u8 use_random_mac; + u8 tap_name[64]; + u8 mac_address[6]; + u8 net_ns_set; + u8 net_ns[64]; + u16 tx_ring_sz; /* optional, default is 256 entries, must be power of 2 */ + u16 rx_ring_sz; /* optional, default is 256 entries, must be power of 2 */ +}; + +/** \brief Reply for tap create reply + @param context - returned sender context, to match reply w/ request + @param retval - return code + @param sw_if_index - software index allocated for the new tap interface +*/ +define tap_create_v2_reply +{ + u32 context; + i32 retval; + u32 sw_if_index; +}; + +/** \brief Delete tap interface + @param client_index - opaque cookie to identify the sender + @param context - sender context, to match reply w/ request + @param sw_if_index - interface index of existing tap interface +*/ +autoreply define tap_delete_v2 +{ + u32 client_index; + u32 context; + u32 sw_if_index; +}; + +/** \brief Dump tap interfaces request */ +define sw_interface_tap_v2_dump +{ + u32 client_index; + u32 context; +}; + +/** \brief Reply for tap dump request + @param sw_if_index - software index of tap interface + @param dev_name - Linux tap device name +*/ +define sw_interface_tap_v2_details +{ + u32 context; + u32 sw_if_index; + u8 dev_name[64]; +}; + +/* + * Local Variables: + * eval: (c-set-style "gnu") + * End: + */ -- cgit 1.2.3-korg