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Subject[PATCH v3 2/9] xen-block: add document for mutli hardware queues/rings
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Document multi queues/rings of xen-block.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
---
include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
index c33e1c4..b453b70 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/io/blkif.h
@@ -28,6 +28,38 @@ typedef uint16_t blkif_vdev_t;
typedef uint64_t blkif_sector_t;

/*
+ * Multiple hardware queues/rings:
+ * If supported, the backend will write the key "multi-queue-max-queues" to
+ * the directory for that vbd, and set its value to the maximum supported
+ * number of queues.
+ * Frontends that are aware of this feature and wish to use it can write the
+ * key "multi-queue-num-queues", set to the number they wish to use, which
+ * must be greater than zero, and no more than the value reported by the backend
+ * in "multi-queue-max-queues".
+ *
+ * For frontends requesting just one queue, the usual event-channel and
+ * ring-ref keys are written as before, simplifying the backend processing
+ * to avoid distinguishing between a frontend that doesn't understand the
+ * multi-queue feature, and one that does, but requested only one queue.
+ *
+ * Frontends requesting two or more queues must not write the toplevel
+ * event-channeland ring-ref keys, instead writing those keys under sub-keys
+ * having the name "queue-N" where N is the integer ID of the queue/ring for
+ * which those keys belong. Queues are indexed from zero.
+ * For example, a frontend with two queues must write the following set of
+ * queue-related keys:
+ *
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/multi-queue-num-queues = "2"
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-0 = ""
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-0/ring-ref = "<ring-ref>"
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-0/event-channel = "<evtchn>"
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-1 = ""
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-1/ring-ref = "<ring-ref>"
+ * /local/domain/1/device/vbd/0/queue-1/event-channel = "<evtchn>"
+ *
+ */
+
+/*
* REQUEST CODES.
*/
#define BLKIF_OP_READ 0
--
1.7.10.4


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