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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




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