On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 16:45:11 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > This patch adds new schema and adds support for parsing and formatting > domain configurations that include vdpa devices. > > vDPA network devices allow high-performance networking in a virtual > machine by providing a wire-speed data path. These devices require a > vendor-specific host driver but the data path follows the virtio > specification. > > When a device on the host is bound to an appropriate vendor-specific > driver, it will create a chardev on the host at e.g. /dev/vhost-vdpa-0. > That chardev path can then be used to define a new interface with > type='vdpa'. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- [...] > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst > index 888db5ea29..b0c2b43dc2 100644 > --- a/docs/formatdomain.rst > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst > @@ -4643,6 +4643,30 @@ or stopping the guest. > </devices> > ... > > +:anchor:`<a id="elementsNICSVDPA"/>` These are not needed for new entries. The link in the header is actually.. > + > +vDPA devices > +^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... generated from the title here. I've added the anchors just to keep old links working. > + > +A vDPA network device can be used to provide wire speed network performance
