On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 09:51:28AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:31:35 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > The number of MSI-X vectors is PCI property visible through lspci, that > > field is read-only and configured by the device. > > > > The static assignment of an amount of MSI-X vectors doesn't allow utilize > > the newly created VF because it is not known to the device the future load > > and configuration where that VF will be used. > > > > The VFs are created on the hypervisor and forwarded to the VMs that have > > different properties (for example number of CPUs). > > > > To overcome the inefficiency in the spread of such MSI-X vectors, we > > allow the kernel to instruct the device with the needed number of such > > vectors, before VF is initialized and bounded to the driver. > > > Hi Leon! > > Looks like you got some missing kdoc here, check out the test in > patchwork so we don't need to worry about this later: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=414497 Thanks Jakub, I'll add kdocs to internal mlx5 functions. IMHO, they are useless. Thanks
