[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [QEMU-DM] Upgrade emulated UART to 16550A.

["Trolle Selander" <trolle.selander@xxxxxxxxx>]

This patch adds 16550 emulation to qemu-dm. I still consider it a work in progress, but from my testing, it consistently performs better than the old code already, sometimes considerably so (on my laptop, dumping out data over serial from a HVM DomU -> pty in Dom0 was up to 
5.3 times faster than with the old 16450 code). I can consistenly reach full 115200 baud speeds over physical serial lines when the virtual device is backed by a phys port, which I never could with the old code.

There are still some things to be done. I want to add proper error handling, so that overflow/framing & parity errors on the physical port get detected and reported by the virtual port. Also, now that FIFOs are in place, I believe performance could be improved significantly by putting some code into the hypervisor so that reads & writes from the FIFOs don't have to exit into qemu-dm at all. I'm also reading up on the specs for newer uarts with deeper FIFOs.

However, for now, I think this patch is already quite good, and I don't think I should sit on it any longer. I'm looking forward to hearing what results others will get with it.

It applies on top of my previously posted patch for modem status/control line passthrough, so I'm re-posting that patch here as well to make things easier.

xen-qemudm-modemcontrol.patch
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xen-qemudm-16550.patch
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