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Message-ID: <20200702082143.25259-23-kishon@ti.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 13:51:43 +0530
From:   Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To:     Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Allen Hubbe <allenbh@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
CC:     <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-ntb@...glegroups.com>,
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        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: [RFC PATCH 22/22] NTB: Describe ntb_virtio and ntb_vhost client in the documentation

Add a blurb in Documentation/ntb.txt to describe the ntb_virtio and
ntb_vhost client

Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
---
 Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst
index 87d1372da879..f84b81625397 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ntb.rst
@@ -227,6 +227,17 @@ test client is interacted with through the debugfs filesystem:
 	specified peer. That peer's interrupt's occurrence file
 	should be incremented.
 
+NTB Vhost Client (ntb\_vhost) and NTB Virtio Client (ntb\_virtio)
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+When two hosts are connected via NTB, one of the hosts should use NTB Vhost
+Client and the other host should use NTB Virtio Client. The NTB Vhost client
+interfaces with the Linux Vhost Framework and lets it to be used with any
+vhost client driver. The NTB Virtio client interfaces with the Linux Virtio
+Framework and lets it to be used with any virtio client driver. The Vhost
+client driver and Virtio client driver creates a logic cink to exchange data
+with each other.
+
 NTB Hardware Drivers
 ====================
 
-- 
2.17.1