From: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: <jiri@nvidia.com>, <saeedm@nvidia.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>,
Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/4] devlink: Clarifies max_macs generic devlink param
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:07:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211130150705.19863-4-shayd@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211130150705.19863-1-shayd@nvidia.com>
The generic param max_macs documentation isn't clear.
Replace it with a more descriptive documentation
Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
---
Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
index b7dfe693a332..c2542dcf63c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
@@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ own name.
errors.
* - ``max_macs``
- u32
- - Specifies the maximum number of MAC addresses per ethernet port of
- this device.
+ - Typically macvlan, vlan net devices mac are also programmed in their
+ parent netdevice's Function rx filter. This parameter limit the
+ maximum number of unicast mac address filters to receive traffic from
+ per ethernet port of this device.
* - ``region_snapshot_enable``
- Boolean
- Enable capture of ``devlink-region`` snapshots.
--
2.21.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-30 15:07 [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/mlx5: Memory optimizations Shay Drory
2021-11-30 15:07 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] net/mlx5: Let user configure io_eq_size resource Shay Drory
2021-11-30 15:07 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net/mlx5: Let user configure event_eq_size resource Shay Drory
2021-11-30 15:07 ` Shay Drory [this message]
2021-11-30 15:07 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/mlx5: Let user configure max_macs generic param Shay Drory
2021-11-30 19:39 ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/mlx5: Memory optimizations Jakub Kicinski
2021-12-01 8:22 ` Shay Drory
2021-12-02 17:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-12-02 18:55 ` Saeed Mahameed
2021-12-03 1:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-12-06 8:18 ` Jiri Pirko
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