From 65d6dcbde84314c6d05a365a26a384f880a5c8fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:01:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Document virtio PCI -device ioeventfd=on|off Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- docs/qdev-device-use.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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. -- 2.39.2