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authorLukasz Maniak <lukasz.maniak@linux.intel.com>2022-05-09 16:16:18 +0200
committerKlaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>2022-06-23 23:24:29 +0200
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docs: Add documentation for SR-IOV and Virtualization Enhancements
Documentation describes 5 new parameters being added regarding SR-IOV: sriov_max_vfs sriov_vq_flexible sriov_vi_flexible sriov_max_vi_per_vf sriov_max_vq_per_vf The description also includes the simplest possible QEMU invocation and the series of NVMe commands required to enable SR-IOV support. Signed-off-by: Lukasz Maniak <lukasz.maniak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
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@@ -239,3 +239,85 @@ 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)``
+
+The simplest possible invocation enables the capability to set up one VF
+controller and assign an admin queue, an IO queue, and a MSI-X interrupt.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ -device nvme-subsys,id=subsys0
+ -device nvme,serial=deadbeef,subsys=subsys0,sriov_max_vfs=1,
+ sriov_vq_flexible=2,sriov_vi_flexible=1
+
+The minimum steps required to configure a functional NVMe secondary
+controller are:
+
+ * unbind flexible resources from the primary controller
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 0 -r 1 -a 1 -n 0
+ nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 0 -r 0 -a 1 -n 0
+
+ * perform a Function Level Reset on the primary controller to actually
+ release the resources
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/reset
+
+ * enable VF
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov_numvfs
+
+ * assign the flexible resources to the VF and set it ONLINE
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 1 -r 1 -a 8 -n 1
+ nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 1 -r 0 -a 8 -n 2
+ nvme virt-mgmt /dev/nvme0 -c 1 -r 0 -a 9 -n 0
+
+ * bind the NVMe driver to the VF
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ echo 0000:01:00.1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/nvme/bind \ No newline at end of file