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authorMichael Guralnik <michaelgur@mellanox.com>2019-11-08 23:45:22 +0000
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>2019-11-11 12:15:29 -0800
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net/mlx5: Document flow_steering_mode devlink param
Add documentation for current mlx5 supported devlink param. Signed-off-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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+flow_steering_mode [DEVICE, DRIVER-SPECIFIC]
+ Controls the flow steering mode of the driver.
+ Two modes are supported:
+ 1. 'dmfs' - Device managed flow steering.
+ 2. 'smfs - Software/Driver managed flow steering.
+ In DMFS mode, the HW steering entities are created and
+ managed through the Firmware.
+ In SMFS mode, the HW steering entities are created and
+ managed though by the driver directly into Hardware
+ without firmware intervention.
+ Type: String
+ Configuration mode: runtime