[PATCH v3 net-next 8/9] devlink: Add Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt
From: Vasundhara Volam <hidden>
Date: 2018-09-28 12:51:04
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
This patch adds a new file to add information about some of the generic configuration parameters set via devlink. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jiri Pirko <redacted> Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <redacted> --- Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Devlink configuration parameters +================================ +Following is the list of configuration parameters via devlink interface. +Each parameter can be generic or driver specific and are device level +parameters. + +Note that the driver-specific files should contain the generic params +they support to, with supported config modes. + +Each parameter can be set in different configuration modes: + runtime - set while driver is running, no reset required. + driverinit - applied while driver initializes, requires restart + driver by devlink reload command. + permanent - written to device's non-volatile memory, hard reset + required. + +Following is the list of parameters: +==================================== +enable_sriov [DEVICE, GENERIC] + Enable Single Root I/O Virtualisation (SRIOV) in + the device. + Type: Boolean + +ignore_ari [DEVICE, GENERIC] + Ignore Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) + capability. If enabled, adapter will ignore ARI + capability even when platforms has the support + enabled and creates same number of partitions when + platform does not support ARI. + Type: Boolean + +msix_vec_per_pf_max [DEVICE, GENERIC] + Provides the maximum number of MSIX interrupts that + a device can create. Value is same across all + physical functions (PFs) in the device. + Type: u32 + +msix_vec_per_pf_min [DEVICE, GENERIC] + Provides the minimum number of MSIX interrupts required + for the device initialization. Value is same across all + physical functions (PFs) in the device. + Type: u32
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