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| author |   Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com> | 2018-10-04 11:13:51 +0530 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-10-04 13:49:43 -0700 |
| commit | 9bff98bb35e1c9b36c7f5b77bde8a9d36e5ea708 (patch) | |
| tree | 180be62f36dffd50c1e782e34caa41812a3641fe /Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt | |
| parent | bnxt_en: Add a driver specific gre_ver_check devlink parameter. (diff) | |
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devlink: Add Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt
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 <jiri@mellanox.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt')
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1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ae444ffe73ac --- /dev/null +++ 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 |