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@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ Contents
- `Enabling the driver and kconfig options`_
- `Devlink info`_
+- `Devlink parameters`_
- `Devlink health reporters`_
+- `mlx5 tracepoints`_
Enabling the driver and kconfig options
================================================
@@ -121,12 +123,44 @@ User command example::
stored:
fw.version 16.26.0100
+Devlink parameters
+==================
+
+flow_steering_mode: Device flow steering mode
+---------------------------------------------
+The flow steering mode parameter 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.
+
+SMFS mode is faster and provides better rule inserstion rate compared to default DMFS mode.
+
+User command examples:
+
+- Set SMFS flow steering mode::
+
+ $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:06:00.0 name flow_steering_mode value "smfs" cmode runtime
+
+- Read device flow steering mode::
+
+ $ devlink dev param show pci/0000:06:00.0 name flow_steering_mode
+ pci/0000:06:00.0:
+ name flow_steering_mode type driver-specific
+ values:
+ cmode runtime value smfs
+
+
Devlink health reporters
========================
tx reporter
-----------
-The tx reporter is responsible of two error scenarios:
+The tx reporter is responsible for reporting and recovering of the following two error scenarios:
- TX timeout
Report on kernel tx timeout detection.
@@ -135,7 +169,7 @@ The tx reporter is responsible of two error scenarios:
Report on error tx completion.
Recover by flushing the TX queue and reset it.
-TX reporter also support Diagnose callback, on which it provides
+TX reporter also support on demand diagnose callback, on which it provides
real time information of its send queues status.
User commands examples:
@@ -144,11 +178,40 @@ User commands examples:
$ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+NOTE: This command has valid output only when interface is up, otherwise the command has empty output.
+
- Show number of tx errors indicated, number of recover flows ended successfully,
is autorecover enabled and graceful period from last recover::
$ devlink health show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter tx
+rx reporter
+-----------
+The rx reporter is responsible for reporting and recovering of the following two error scenarios:
+
+- RX queues initialization (population) timeout
+ RX queues descriptors population on ring initialization is done in
+ napi context via triggering an irq, in case of a failure to get
+ the minimum amount of descriptors, a timeout would occur and it
+ could be recoverable by polling the EQ (Event Queue).
+- RX completions with errors (reported by HW on interrupt context)
+ Report on rx completion error.
+ Recover (if needed) by flushing the related queue and reset it.
+
+RX reporter also supports on demand diagnose callback, on which it
+provides real time information of its receive queues status.
+
+- Diagnose rx queues status, and corresponding completion queue::
+
+ $ devlink health diagnose pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter rx
+
+NOTE: This command has valid output only when interface is up, otherwise the command has empty output.
+
+- Show number of rx errors indicated, number of recover flows ended successfully,
+ is autorecover enabled and graceful period from last recover::
+
+ $ devlink health show pci/0000:82:00.0 reporter rx
+
fw reporter
-----------
The fw reporter implements diagnose and dump callbacks.
@@ -190,3 +253,48 @@ User commands examples:
$ devlink health dump show pci/0000:82:00.1 reporter fw_fatal
NOTE: This command can run only on PF.
+
+mlx5 tracepoints
+================
+
+mlx5 driver provides internal trace points for tracking and debugging using
+kernel tracepoints interfaces (refer to Documentation/trace/ftrase.rst).
+
+For the list of support mlx5 events check /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/mlx5/
+
+tc and eswitch offloads tracepoints:
+
+- mlx5e_configure_flower: trace flower filter actions and cookies offloaded to mlx5::
+
+ $ echo mlx5:mlx5e_configure_flower >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ ...
+ tc-6535 [019] ...1 2672.404466: mlx5e_configure_flower: cookie=0000000067874a55 actions= REDIRECT
+
+- mlx5e_delete_flower: trace flower filter actions and cookies deleted from mlx5::
+
+ $ echo mlx5:mlx5e_delete_flower >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ ...
+ tc-6569 [010] .N.1 2686.379075: mlx5e_delete_flower: cookie=0000000067874a55 actions= NULL
+
+- mlx5e_stats_flower: trace flower stats request::
+
+ $ echo mlx5:mlx5e_stats_flower >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ ...
+ tc-6546 [010] ...1 2679.704889: mlx5e_stats_flower: cookie=0000000060eb3d6a bytes=0 packets=0 lastused=4295560217
+
+- mlx5e_tc_update_neigh_used_value: trace tunnel rule neigh update value offloaded to mlx5::
+
+ $ echo mlx5:mlx5e_tc_update_neigh_used_value >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ ...
+ kworker/u48:4-8806 [009] ...1 55117.882428: mlx5e_tc_update_neigh_used_value: netdev: ens1f0 IPv4: 1.1.1.10 IPv6: ::ffff:1.1.1.10 neigh_used=1
+
+- mlx5e_rep_neigh_update: trace neigh update tasks scheduled due to neigh state change events::
+
+ $ echo mlx5:mlx5e_rep_neigh_update >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event
+ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ ...
+ kworker/u48:7-2221 [009] ...1 1475.387435: mlx5e_rep_neigh_update: netdev: ens1f0 MAC: 24:8a:07:9a:17:9a IPv4: 1.1.1.10 IPv6: ::ffff:1.1.1.10 neigh_connected=1