Include a help section for Kconfig LNET.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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)"