PCI: Add sysfs sriov_drivers_autoprobe to control VF driver binding

Sometimes it is not desirable to bind SR-IOV VFs to drivers.  This can save
host side resource usage by VF instances that will be assigned to VMs.

Add a new PCI sysfs interface "sriov_drivers_autoprobe" to control that
from the PF.  To modify it, echo 0/n/N (disable probe) or 1/y/Y (enable
probe) to:

  /sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_drivers_autoprobe

Note that this must be done before enabling VFs.  The change will not take
effect if VFs are already enabled.  Simply, one can disable VFs by setting
sriov_numvfs to 0, choose whether to probe or not, and then re-enable the
VFs by restoring sriov_numvfs.

[bhelgaas: changelog, ABI doc]
Signed-off-by: Bodong Wang <bodong@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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Bodong Wang
2017-04-13 01:51:40 +03:00
committed by Bjorn Helgaas
parent f65fd1aa4f
commit 0e7df22401
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@@ -68,6 +68,18 @@ To disable SR-IOV capability:
echo 0 > \
/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_numvfs
To enable auto probing VFs by a compatible driver on the host, run
command below before enabling SR-IOV capabilities. This is the
default behavior.
echo 1 > \
/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
To disable auto probing VFs by a compatible driver on the host, run
command below before enabling SR-IOV capabilities. Updating this
entry will not affect VFs which are already probed.
echo 0 > \
/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
3.2 Usage example
Following piece of code illustrates the usage of the SR-IOV API.