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authorTariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>2018-05-09 18:29:04 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-05-10 16:08:25 -0400
commite57328384b6a9148df653216203408de3be3dda1 (patch)
treed6e90953f3fa7909085b88eaddf7273c84630317 /drivers
parent86a3e5d02c2006aaf085c940f037d2453ac44957 (diff)
net/mlx4_core: Use msi_x module param to limit num of MSI-X irqs
Extend the boolean interpretation of msi_x module parameter to numerical, as follows: 0 - Don't use MSI-X. 1 - Use MSI-X, driver decides the num of MSI-X irqs. >=2 - Use MSI-X, limit number of MSI-X irqs to msi_x. In SRIOV, this limits the number of MSI-X irqs per VF. Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> Cc: Ajaykumar Hotchandani <ajaykumar.hotchandani@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ajaykumar Hotchandani <ajaykumar.hotchandani@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
index b6aaf34d6648..80a75c80a463 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug_level, "Enable debug tracing if > 0");
static int msi_x = 1;
module_param(msi_x, int, 0444);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(msi_x, "attempt to use MSI-X if nonzero");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(msi_x, "0 - don't use MSI-X, 1 - use MSI-X, >1 - limit number of MSI-X irqs to msi_x");
#else /* CONFIG_PCI_MSI */
@@ -2815,6 +2815,9 @@ static void mlx4_enable_msi_x(struct mlx4_dev *dev)
dev->caps.num_eqs - dev->caps.reserved_eqs,
MAX_MSIX);
+ if (msi_x > 1)
+ nreq = min_t(int, nreq, msi_x);
+
entries = kcalloc(nreq, sizeof(*entries), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!entries)
goto no_msi;
@@ -4182,6 +4185,11 @@ static struct pci_driver mlx4_driver = {
static int __init mlx4_verify_params(void)
{
+ if (msi_x < 0) {
+ pr_warn("mlx4_core: bad msi_x: %d\n", msi_x);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
if ((log_num_mac < 0) || (log_num_mac > 7)) {
pr_warn("mlx4_core: bad num_mac: %d\n", log_num_mac);
return -1;