From e90cde0d76f01fd3b60da0a983d2e93c5c35bedc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Guralnik Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 23:45:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Document flow_steering_mode devlink param Add documentation for current mlx5 supported devlink param. Signed-off-by: Michael Guralnik Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed --- Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8c0b82d655dc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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