virtio_net作为虚拟网卡驱动,最主要的就是实现网路报文收发,对比物理网卡,当收到网络报文时会产生中断,由中断处理函数接收网络报文,这一点可以类比到virtio_net。实际上,virtio_net设备的中断注册是在驱动的probe函数中完成的。
virtnet_probe函数
static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
int i, err;
struct net_device *dev;
struct virtnet_info *vi;
u16 max_queue_pairs;
if (!vdev->config->get) {
dev_err(&vdev->dev, "%s failure: config access disabled\n",
__func__);
return -EINVAL;
}
if (!virtnet_validate_features(vdev))
return -EINVAL;
/* Find if host supports multiqueue virtio_net device */
err = virtio_cread_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ,
struct virtio_net_config,
max_virtqueue_pairs, &max_queue_pairs);
/* We need at least 2 queue's */
if (err || max_queue_pairs < VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MIN ||
max_queue_pairs > VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ_VQ_PAIRS_MAX ||
!virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ))
max_queue_pairs = 1;
/* Allocate ourselves a network device with room for our info */
dev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct virtnet_info), max_queue_pairs); //创建net_device设备
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;
/* Set up network device as normal. */
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT | IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
dev->netdev_ops = &virtnet_netdev;
dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
dev->ethtool_ops = &virtnet_ethtool_ops;
SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &vdev->dev);
/* Do we support "hardware" checksums? */
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM)) {
/* This opens up the world of extra features. */
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST;
if (csum)
dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST;
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO)) {
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO
| NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO6;
}
/* Individual feature bits: what can host handle? */
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO4))
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO;
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_TSO6))
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO6;
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_ECN))
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_TSO_ECN;
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_UFO))
dev->hw_features |= NETIF_F_UFO;
dev->features |= NETIF_F_GSO_ROBUST;
if (gso)
dev->features |= dev->hw_features & (NETIF_F_ALL_TSO|NETIF_F_UFO);
/* (!csum && gso) case will be fixed by register_netdev() */
}
if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM))
dev->features |= NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
dev->vlan_features = de