[PATCH] net/vhost: improve devargs documentation

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Fri Feb 7 15:10:17 CET 2025



On 12/20/24 3:58 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> This patch adds missing 'client' devarg documentation and
> improve other devargs.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 1603
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> ---
>   doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst | 9 +++++++--
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
> index 39c6fcff58..0013dc526f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/vhost.rst
> @@ -32,13 +32,18 @@ The user can specify below arguments in `--vdev` option.
>   
>   #.  ``iface``:
>   
> -    It is used to specify a path to connect to a QEMU virtio-net device.
> +    It is used to specify a path to connect to a Vhost-user frontend or VDUSE device.
>   
>   #.  ``queues``:
>   
> -    It is used to specify the number of queues virtio-net device has.
> +    It is used to specify the number of queue pairs virtio-net device has.
>       (Default: 1)
>   
> +#.  ``client``:
> +
> +   It is used to specify whether the Vhost PMD acts as client or server.
> +   (Default: 0 (server))
> +
>   #.  ``iommu-support``:
>   
>       It is used to enable iommu support in vhost library.

Applied to next-virtio/for-next-net.

Thanks,
Maxime



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