gve: update gve.rst
authorRushil Gupta <rushilg@google.com>
Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:34:44 +0000 (21:34 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 6 Aug 2023 07:34:37 +0000 (08:34 +0100)
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/google/gve.rst

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@@ -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.