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| author | Vlad Dumitrescu <vdumitrescu@nvidia.com> | 2025-09-06 18:29:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-09-09 19:14:24 -0700 |
| commit | a4c49611cf4f7018ee80f02bded12fd4002ef95c (patch) | |
| tree | 3e2bd4939212c8370f26e25868c4ab58529f739a /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 95a0af146dff5437acb4ea27eacc05aa22c7bb54 (diff) | |
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net/mlx5: Implement devlink total_vfs parameter
Some devices support both symmetric (same value for all PFs) and
asymmetric, while others only support symmetric configuration. This
implementation prefers asymmetric, since it is closer to the devlink
model (per function settings), but falls back to symmetric when needed.
Example usage:
devlink dev param set pci/0000:01:00.0 name total_vfs value <u16> cmode permanent
devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0 action fw_activate
echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/remove
echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/rescan
cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov_totalvfs
Signed-off-by: Vlad Dumitrescu <vdumitrescu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Kamal Heib <kheib@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250907012953.301746-5-saeed@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst index c3610f7c1d4b..07b1424cbfbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst @@ -40,6 +40,28 @@ Parameters - Boolean - Applies to each physical function (PF) independently, if the device supports it. Otherwise, it applies symmetrically to all PFs. + * - ``total_vfs`` + - permanent + - The range is between 1 and a device-specific max. + - Applies to each physical function (PF) independently, if the device + supports it. Otherwise, it applies symmetrically to all PFs. + +Note: permanent parameters such as ``enable_sriov`` and ``total_vfs`` require FW reset to take effect + +.. code-block:: bash + + # setup parameters + devlink dev param set pci/0000:01:00.0 name enable_sriov value true cmode permanent + devlink dev param set pci/0000:01:00.0 name total_vfs value 8 cmode permanent + + # Fw reset + devlink dev reload pci/0000:01:00.0 action fw_activate + + # for PCI related config such as sriov PCI reset/rescan is required: + echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/remove + echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/rescan + grep ^ /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov_* + The ``mlx5`` driver also implements the following driver-specific parameters. |