Signed-off-by: Lukasz Maniak <lukasz.man...@linux.intel.com> --- docs/system/devices/nvme.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/system/devices/nvme.rst b/docs/system/devices/nvme.rst index b5acb2a9c1..166a11abc6 100644 --- a/docs/system/devices/nvme.rst +++ b/docs/system/devices/nvme.rst @@ -239,3 +239,39 @@ The virtual namespace device supports DIF- and DIX-based protection information to ``1`` to transfer protection information as the first eight bytes of metadata. Otherwise, the protection information is transferred as the last eight bytes. + +Virtualization Enhancements and SR-IOV (Experimental Support) +------------------------------------------------------------- + +The ``nvme`` device supports Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing +along with Virtualization Enhancements. The controller has to be linked to +an NVM Subsystem device (``nvme-subsys``) for use with SR-IOV. + +A number of parameters are present (**please note, that they may be +subject to change**): + +``sriov_max_vfs`` (default: ``0``) + Indicates the maximum number of PCIe virtual functions supported + by the controller. Specifying a non-zero value enables reporting of both + SR-IOV and ARI (Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation) capabilities + by the NVMe device. Virtual function controllers will not report SR-IOV. + +``sriov_vq_flexible`` + Indicates the total number of flexible queue resources assignable to all + the secondary controllers. Implicitly sets the number of primary + controller's private resources to ``(max_ioqpairs - sriov_vq_flexible)``. + +``sriov_vi_flexible`` + Indicates the total number of flexible interrupt resources assignable to + all the secondary controllers. Implicitly sets the number of primary + controller's private resources to ``(msix_qsize - sriov_vi_flexible)``. + +``sriov_max_vi_per_vf`` (default: ``0``) + Indicates the maximum number of virtual interrupt resources assignable + to a secondary controller. The default ``0`` resolves to + ``(sriov_vi_flexible / sriov_max_vfs)`` + +``sriov_max_vq_per_vf`` (default: ``0``) + Indicates the maximum number of virtual queue resources assignable to + a secondary controller. The default ``0`` resolves to + ``(sriov_vq_flexible / sriov_max_vfs)`` -- 2.25.1
