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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/4] docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=
From: |
Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/4] docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:19:29 +0000 |
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
---
docs/qdev-device-use.txt | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/qdev-device-use.txt b/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
index f252c8e..85feda7 100644
--- a/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
+++ b/docs/qdev-device-use.txt
@@ -97,15 +97,17 @@ 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.
* if=pflash, if=mtd, if=sd, if=xen are not yet available with -device
-
For USB devices, the old way is actually different:
-usbdevice disk:format=FMT:FILENAME
@@ -240,6 +242,9 @@ 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 (default) or off.
+
-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.
--
1.7.2.3