From: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@mellanox.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 23:45:22 +0000
Subject: net/mlx5: Document flow_steering_mode devlink param
Patch-mainline: v5.5-rc1
Git-commit: e90cde0d76f01fd3b60da0a983d2e93c5c35bedc
References: jsc#SLE-8464
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>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
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Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/devlink-params-mlx5.txt
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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