[RFC PATCH 22/22] NTB: Describe ntb_virtio and ntb_vhost client in the documentation
From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <hidden>
Date: 2020-07-02 08:24:37
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Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Add a blurb in Documentation/ntb.txt to describe the ntb_virtio and ntb_vhost client Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <redacted> --- Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst
index 87d1372da879..f84b81625397 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst@@ -227,6 +227,17 @@ test client is interacted with through the debugfs filesystem: specified peer. That peer's interrupt's occurrence file should be incremented. +NTB Vhost Client (ntb\_vhost) and NTB Virtio Client (ntb\_virtio) +------------------------------------------------------------------ + +When two hosts are connected via NTB, one of the hosts should use NTB Vhost +Client and the other host should use NTB Virtio Client. The NTB Vhost client +interfaces with the Linux Vhost Framework and lets it to be used with any +vhost client driver. The NTB Virtio client interfaces with the Linux Virtio +Framework and lets it to be used with any virtio client driver. The Vhost +client driver and Virtio client driver creates a logic cink to exchange data +with each other. + NTB Hardware Drivers ====================
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