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| author | Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com> | 2025-01-09 18:05:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-01-13 19:21:09 -0800 |
| commit | 9fc43b5e3933a7e5924ba83d7561399d439de5bb (patch) | |
| tree | dc05f30ad25cab1de82fd6a2fc686c7f4f252e9b /Documentation/networking/devlink | |
| parent | net/mlx5: fs, add HWS get capabilities (diff) | |
| download | linux-9fc43b5e3933a7e5924ba83d7561399d439de5bb.tar.gz linux-9fc43b5e3933a7e5924ba83d7561399d439de5bb.zip | |
net/mlx5: fs, add HWS to steering mode options
Add HW Steering mode to mlx5 devlink param of steering mode options.
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250109160546.1733647-14-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst index 456985407475..41618538fc70 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/mlx5.rst @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ parameters. * ``smfs`` Software managed flow steering. In SMFS mode, the HW steering entities are created and manage through the driver without firmware intervention. + * ``hmfs`` Hardware managed flow steering. In HMFS mode, the driver + is configuring steering rules directly to the HW using Work Queues with + a special new type of WQE (Work Queue Element). SMFS mode is faster and provides better rule insertion rate compared to default DMFS mode. |