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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-12-17 12:01:52 +0000
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2011-01-10 14:44:16 +0200
commit65d6dcbde84314c6d05a365a26a384f880a5c8fe (patch)
tree5034dad870d5b04ee667e70015c8e4a7f8f4fac2 /docs
parent25db9ebe15125deb32958c6df74996f745edf1f9 (diff)
docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r--docs/qdev-device-use.txt8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/qdev-device-use.txt b/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
index f252c8e3b..f2f9b757a 100644
--- a/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
+++ b/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
@@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ The -device argument differs in detail for each kind of drive:
* if=virtio
- -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=DRIVE-ID,class=C,vectors=V
+ -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=DRIVE-ID,class=C,vectors=V,ioeventfd=IOEVENTFD
This lets you control PCI device class and MSI-X vectors.
+ IOEVENTFD controls whether or not ioeventfd is used for virtqueue notify. It
+ can be set to on (default) or off.
+
As for all PCI devices, you can add bus=PCI-BUS,addr=DEVFN to
control the PCI device address.
@@ -240,6 +243,9 @@ For PCI devices, you can add bus=PCI-BUS,addr=DEVFN to control the PCI
device address, as usual. The old -net nic provides parameter addr
for that, it is silently ignored when the NIC is not a PCI device.
+For virtio-net-pci, you can control whether or not ioeventfd is used for
+virtqueue notify by setting ioeventfd= to on or off (default).
+
-net nic accepts vectors=V for all models, but it's silently ignored
except for virtio-net-pci (model=virtio). With -device, only devices
that support it accept it.