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author | Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com> | 2013-05-22 02:34:47 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-05-23 21:40:37 -0400 |
commit | a5560a6c17a4af4e8f45d5c1215ba7d5bb0ff109 (patch) | |
tree | a39dca4181d43db663b5796335fecbed7b0ed34f /include/xen/interface | |
parent | d634bf2cb96639b7eddb646dc1fc17b1bc6e567f (diff) |
xen: netif.h: document feature-split-event-channels
This patch synchronises documentation for feature-split-event-channels from
Xen canonical header file.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/xen/interface')
-rw-r--r-- | include/xen/interface/io/netif.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h index 3ef3fe05ee99..eb262e3324d2 100644 --- a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h +++ b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h | |||
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ | |||
38 | * that it cannot safely queue packets (as it may not be kicked to send them). | 38 | * that it cannot safely queue packets (as it may not be kicked to send them). |
39 | */ | 39 | */ |
40 | 40 | ||
41 | /* | ||
42 | * "feature-split-event-channels" is introduced to separate guest TX | ||
43 | * and RX notificaion. Backend either doesn't support this feature or | ||
44 | * advertise it via xenstore as 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled). | ||
45 | * | ||
46 | * To make use of this feature, frontend should allocate two event | ||
47 | * channels for TX and RX, advertise them to backend as | ||
48 | * "event-channel-tx" and "event-channel-rx" respectively. If frontend | ||
49 | * doesn't want to use this feature, it just writes "event-channel" | ||
50 | * node as before. | ||
51 | */ | ||
52 | |||
41 | /* | 53 | /* |
42 | * This is the 'wire' format for packets: | 54 | * This is the 'wire' format for packets: |
43 | * Request 1: xen_netif_tx_request -- XEN_NETTXF_* (any flags) | 55 | * Request 1: xen_netif_tx_request -- XEN_NETTXF_* (any flags) |