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| author | Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> | 2012-11-27 22:31:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2012-11-28 11:25:47 -0700 |
| commit | 2597ba763fc44e247e462177abfe92d95bc5e6d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d971907328ceb025fc079fba4ce2b73c442b70d /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | 1452cd76a97bf7b93a015586dcabc73fd935e692 (diff) | |
PCI: SRIOV control and status via sysfs (documentation)
Add documentation of new sysfs files and new pci_driver SRIOV
configuration interface.
[bhelgaas: changelog]
Signed-off: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index dff1f48d252..1ce5ae329c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci @@ -222,3 +222,37 @@ Description: satisfied too. Reading this attribute will show the current value of d3cold_allowed bit. Writing this attribute will set the value of d3cold_allowed bit. + +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../sriov_totalvfs +Date: November 2012 +Contact: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> +Description: + This file appears when a physical PCIe device supports SR-IOV. + Userspace applications can read this file to determine the + maximum number of Virtual Functions (VFs) a PCIe physical + function (PF) can support. Typically, this is the value reported + in the PF's SR-IOV extended capability structure's TotalVFs + element. Drivers have the ability at probe time to reduce the + value read from this file via the pci_sriov_set_totalvfs() + function. + +What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../sriov_numvfs +Date: November 2012 +Contact: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> +Description: + This file appears when a physical PCIe device supports SR-IOV. + Userspace applications can read and write to this file to + determine and control the enablement or disablement of Virtual + Functions (VFs) on the physical function (PF). A read of this + file will return the number of VFs that are enabled on this PF. + A number written to this file will enable the specified + number of VFs. A userspace application would typically read the + file and check that the value is zero, and then write the number + of VFs that should be enabled on the PF; the value written + should be less than or equal to the value in the sriov_totalvfs + file. A userspace application wanting to disable the VFs would + write a zero to this file. The core ensures that valid values + are written to this file, and returns errors when values are not + valid. For example, writing a 2 to this file when sriov_numvfs + is not 0 and not 2 already will return an error. Writing a 10 + when the value of sriov_totalvfs is 8 will return an error. |