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[QEMU] virtio device support for notification data feature

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    • rhel-10.0
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      Description of problem:

      When VIRTIO_F_NOTIFICATION_DATA feature is enabled, the guest can communicate the avail_idx in the notification itselfs saving the device a read to avail_idx. This opens up optimization opportunities. The main goal is to enable it for net devices.

      Patches have been posted upstream adding this feature.

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      How reproducible:
      always

      Steps to Reproduce:
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      Actual results:
      1ULL << VIRTIO_F_NOTIFICATION_DATA is not set in the feature bit

      Expected results:

      Notification data is enabled and virtio device can communicate.

      Additional info:

              eperezma Eugenio Pérez
              eperezma Eugenio Pérez
              virt-maint virt-maint
              Lei Yang Lei Yang
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