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[Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next V3 3/3] 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/xen/interface/io/netif.h |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
index 3ef3fe0..eb262e3 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@
  * that it cannot safely queue packets (as it may not be kicked to send them).
  */
 
+ /*
+ * "feature-split-event-channels" is introduced to separate guest TX
+ * and RX notificaion. Backend either doesn't support this feature or
+ * advertise it via xenstore as 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled).
+ *
+ * To make use of this feature, frontend should allocate two event
+ * channels for TX and RX, advertise them to backend as
+ * "event-channel-tx" and "event-channel-rx" respectively. If frontend
+ * doesn't want to use this feature, it just writes "event-channel"
+ * node as before.
+ */
+
 /*
  * This is the 'wire' format for packets:
  *  Request 1: xen_netif_tx_request  -- XEN_NETTXF_* (any flags)
-- 
1.7.10.4


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