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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echo 0 > \
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/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_numvfs
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To enable auto probing VFs by a compatible driver on the host, run
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command below before enabling SR-IOV capabilities. This is the
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default behavior.
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echo 1 > \
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/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
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To disable auto probing VFs by a compatible driver on the host, run
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command below before enabling SR-IOV capabilities. Updating this
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entry will not affect VFs which are already probed.
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echo 0 > \
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/sys/bus/pci/devices/<DOMAIN:BUS:DEVICE.FUNCTION>/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
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3.2 Usage example
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Following piece of code illustrates the usage of the SR-IOV API.
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