Commit c642cc07 authored by Tadeusz Struk's avatar Tadeusz Struk Committed by Doug Ledford

IB/hfi1: Document new sysfs entries for hfi1 driver

This patch adds description for the sdma engine related sysfs entries
for the HFI1 driver.
Reviewed-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSebastian Sanchez <sebastian.sanchez@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJianxin Xiong <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
parent af3674d6
......@@ -89,6 +89,36 @@ HFI1
nctxts - number of allowed contexts (PSM2)
chip_reset - diagnostic (root only)
boardversion - board version
sdma<N>/ - one directory per sdma engine (0 - 15)
sdma<N>/cpu_list - read-write, list of cpus for user-process to sdma
engine assignment.
sdma<N>/vl - read-only, vl the sdma engine maps to.
The new interface will give the user control on the affinity settings
for the hfi1 device.
As an example, to set an sdma engine irq affinity and thread affinity
of a user processes to use the sdma engine, which is "near" in terms
of NUMA configuration, or physical cpu location, the user will do:
echo "3" > /proc/irq/<N>/smp_affinity_list
echo "4-7" > /sys/devices/.../sdma3/cpu_list
cat /sys/devices/.../sdma3/vl
0
echo "8" > /proc/irq/<M>/smp_affinity_list
echo "9-12" > /sys/devices/.../sdma4/cpu_list
cat /sys/devices/.../sdma4/vl
1
to make sure that when a process runs on cpus 4,5,6, or 7,
and uses vl=0, then sdma engine 3 is selected by the driver,
and also the interrupt of the sdma engine 3 is steered to cpu 3.
Similarly, when a process runs on cpus 9,10,11, or 12 and sets vl=1,
then engine 4 will be selected and the irq of the sdma engine 4 is
steered to cpu 8.
This assumes that in the above N is the irq number of "sdma3",
and M is irq number of "sdma4" in the /proc/interrupts file.
ports/1/
CCMgtA/
cc_settings_bin - CCA tables used by PSM2
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