diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst index ab790e7980b8..7627b1da01f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst @@ -164,6 +164,41 @@ device to instantiate the subfunction device on particular PCI function. A subfunction device is created on the :ref:`Documentation/driver-api/auxiliary_bus.rst `. At this point a matching subfunction driver binds to the subfunction's auxiliary device. +Rate object management +====================== + +Devlink provides API to manage tx rates of single devlink port or a group. +This is done through rate objects, which can be one of the two types: + +``leaf`` + Represents a single devlink port; created/destroyed by the driver. Since leaf + have 1to1 mapping to its devlink port, in user space it is referred as + ``pci//``; + +``node`` + Represents a group of rate objects (leafs and/or nodes); created/deleted by + request from the userspace; initially empty (no rate objects added). In + userspace it is referred as ``pci//``, where + ``node_name`` can be any identifier, except decimal number, to avoid + collisions with leafs. + +API allows to configure following rate object's parameters: + +``tx_share`` + Minimum TX rate value shared among all other rate objects, or rate objects + that parts of the parent group, if it is a part of the same group. + +``tx_max`` + Maximum TX rate value. + +``parent`` + Parent node name. Parent node rate limits are considered as additional limits + to all node children limits. ``tx_max`` is an upper limit for children. + ``tx_share`` is a total bandwidth distributed among children. + +Driver implementations are allowed to support both or either rate object types +and setting methods of their parameters. + Terms and Definitions ===================== diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/netdevsim.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/netdevsim.rst index 02c2d20dc673..8a292fb5aaea 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/netdevsim.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/netdevsim.rst @@ -57,6 +57,32 @@ entries, FIB rule entries and nexthops that the driver will allow. $ devlink resource set netdevsim/netdevsim0 path /nexthops size 16 $ devlink dev reload netdevsim/netdevsim0 +Rate objects +============ + +The ``netdevsim`` driver supports rate objects management, which includes: + +- registerging/unregistering leaf rate objects per VF devlink port; +- creation/deletion node rate objects; +- setting tx_share and tx_max rate values for any rate object type; +- setting parent node for any rate object type. + +Rate nodes and it's parameters are exposed in ``netdevsim`` debugfs in RO mode. +For example created rate node with name ``some_group``: + +.. code:: shell + + $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/rate_groups/some_group + rate_parent tx_max tx_share + +Same parameters are exposed for leaf objects in corresponding ports directories. +For ex.: + +.. code:: shell + + $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/ports/1 + dev ethtool rate_parent tx_max tx_share + Driver-specific Traps =====================