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[net-next,4/4] gve: update gve.rst

Message ID 20230802213338.2391025-5-rushilg@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series Add QPL mode for DQO descriptor format | expand

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Commit Message

Rushil Gupta Aug. 2, 2023, 9:33 p.m. UTC
Add a note about QPL and RDA mode

Signed-off-by: Rushil Gupta <rushilg@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bailey Forrest <bcf@google.com>
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 .../networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst    | 9 +++++++++
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst
index 6d73ee78f3d7..31d621bca82e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@  Descriptor Formats
 GVE supports two descriptor formats: GQI and DQO. These two formats have
 entirely different descriptors, which will be described below.
 
+Addressing Mode
+------------------
+GVE supports two addressing modes: QPL and RDA.
+QPL ("queue-page-list") mode communicates data through a set of
+pre-registered pages.
+
+For RDA ("raw DMA addressing") mode, the set of pages is dynamic.
+Therefore, the packet buffers can be anywhere in guest memory.
+
 Registers
 ---------
 All registers are MMIO.