tap: add vhost/vhostfd options
This adds vhost binary option to tap, to enable vhost net accelerator.
Default is off for now, we'll be able to make default on long term
when we know it's stable.
vhostfd option can be used by management, to pass in the fd. Assigning
vhostfd implies vhost=on.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
index 1092bdc..3ede738 100644
--- a/net.c
+++ b/net.c
@@ -976,6 +976,14 @@
.name = "vnet_hdr",
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
.help = "enable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag on the tap interface"
+ }, {
+ .name = "vhost",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ .help = "enable vhost-net network accelerator",
+ }, {
+ .name = "vhostfd",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ .help = "file descriptor of an already opened vhost net device",
},
#endif /* _WIN32 */
{ /* end of list */ }
