From: Longpeng <longpe...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Longpeng <longpe...@huawei.com> --- docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-device.rst | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-device.rst
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-device.rst b/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-device.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b758c4fce6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/devices/vhost-vdpa-device.rst @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ + +========================= +generic vhost-vdpa device +========================= + +This document explains the usage of the generic vhost vdpa device. + +Description +----------- + +vDPA(virtio data path acceleration) device is a device that uses a datapath +which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor specific control +path. + +QEMU provides two types of vhost-vdpa devices to enable the vDPA device, one +is type sensitive which means QEMU needs to know the actual device type +(e.g. net, blk, scsi) and another is called "generic vdpa device" which is +type insensitive (likes vfio-pci). + +Examples +-------- + +Prepare the vhost-vdpa backends first: + +:: + host# ls -l /dev/vhost-vdpa-* + crw------- 1 root root 236, 0 Nov 2 00:49 /dev/vhost-vdpa-0 + +Start QEMU with virtio-mmio bus: + +:: + host# qemu-system \ + -M microvm -m 512 -smp 2 -kernel ... -initrd ... \ + -device vhost-vdpa-device,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-0 \ + ... + +Start QEMU with virtio-pci bus: + +:: + host# qemu-system \ + -M pc -m 512 -smp 2 \ + -device vhost-vdpa-device-pci,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-0 \ + ... -- 2.23.0
