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1config VHOST_NET
2 tristate "Host kernel accelerator for virtio net (EXPERIMENTAL)"
3 depends on NET && EVENTFD && (TUN || !TUN) && (MACVTAP || !MACVTAP) && EXPERIMENTAL
4 ---help---
5 This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
6 guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
7 module itself which needs to be loaded in guest kernel.
8
9 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
10 be called vhost_net.
11
1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
2config VHOST_IOTLB
3 tristate
4 help
5 Generic IOTLB implementation for vhost and vringh.
6 This option is selected by any driver which needs to support
7 an IOMMU in software.
8
9config VHOST_RING
10 tristate
11 select VHOST_IOTLB
12 help
13 This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
14 the host side of a virtio ring.
15
16config VHOST_TASK
17 bool
18 default n
19
20config VHOST
21 tristate
22 select VHOST_IOTLB
23 select VHOST_TASK
24 help
25 This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
26 the core of vhost.
27
28menuconfig VHOST_MENU
29 bool "VHOST drivers"
30 default y
31
32if VHOST_MENU
33
34config VHOST_NET
35 tristate "Host kernel accelerator for virtio net"
36 depends on NET && EVENTFD && (TUN || !TUN) && (TAP || !TAP)
37 select VHOST
38 help
39 This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
40 guest networking with virtio_net. Not to be confused with virtio_net
41 module itself which needs to be loaded in guest kernel.
42
43 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
44 be called vhost_net.
45
46config VHOST_SCSI
47 tristate "VHOST_SCSI TCM fabric driver"
48 depends on TARGET_CORE && EVENTFD
49 select VHOST
50 default n
51 help
52 Say M here to enable the vhost_scsi TCM fabric module
53 for use with virtio-scsi guests
54
55config VHOST_VSOCK
56 tristate "vhost virtio-vsock driver"
57 depends on VSOCKETS && EVENTFD
58 select VHOST
59 select VIRTIO_VSOCKETS_COMMON
60 default n
61 help
62 This kernel module can be loaded in the host kernel to provide AF_VSOCK
63 sockets for communicating with guests. The guests must have the
64 virtio_transport.ko driver loaded to use the virtio-vsock device.
65
66 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
67 vhost_vsock.
68
69config VHOST_VDPA
70 tristate "Vhost driver for vDPA-based backend"
71 depends on EVENTFD
72 select VHOST
73 select IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER
74 depends on VDPA
75 help
76 This kernel module can be loaded in host kernel to accelerate
77 guest virtio devices with the vDPA-based backends.
78
79 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
80 will be called vhost_vdpa.
81
82config VHOST_CROSS_ENDIAN_LEGACY
83 bool "Cross-endian support for vhost"
84 default n
85 help
86 This option allows vhost to support guests with a different byte
87 ordering from host while using legacy virtio.
88
89 Userspace programs can control the feature using the
90 VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN and VHOST_GET_VRING_ENDIAN ioctls.
91
92 This is only useful on a few platforms (ppc64 and arm64). Since it
93 adds some overhead, it is disabled by default.
94
95 If unsure, say "N".
96
97endif