Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | [PATCH 3/4] staging: lustre: add help section of Kconfig config LNET | Date | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:35:28 -0500 |
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Include a help section for Kconfig LNET.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig index 9c85091..980ce44 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ config LNET - tristate "Lustre networking subsystem" + tristate "Lustre networking subsystem (LNet)" depends on LUSTRE_FS + help + The Lustre network layer, also known as LNet, is a networking abstaction + level API that was initially created to allow Lustre Filesystem to utilize + very different networks like tcp and ib verbs in a uniform way. In the + case of Lustre routers only the LNet layer is required. Lately other + projects are also looking into using LNet as their networking API as well. config LNET_MAX_PAYLOAD int "Lustre lnet max transfer payload (default 1MB)" -- 1.7.1
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