From 8680a60fc1fc19b5bcf50f6cfd9b5d08fc799926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shay Drory Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 12:09:29 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5: Let user configure max_macs generic param Currently, max_macs is taking 70Kbytes of memory per function. This size is not needed in all use cases, and is critical with large scale. Hence, allow user to configure the number of max_macs. For example, to reduce the number of max_macs to 1, execute:: $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:00:0b.0 name max_macs value 1 \ cmode driverinit $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:0b.0 Signed-off-by: Shay Drory Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed --- Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst index 38089f0aefcf..38e94ed65936 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Parameters * - ``event_eq_size`` - driverinit - The range is between 64 and 4096. + * - ``max_macs`` + - driverinit + - The range is between 1 and 2^31. Only power of 2 values are supported. The ``mlx5`` driver also implements the following driver-specific parameters. -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b