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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c index c14d4d89672f..706fc69aa0c5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c @@ -250,13 +250,15 @@ static int ixgbe_pci_sriov_enable(struct pci_dev *dev, int num_vfs) if (err) return err; - /* While the SR-IOV capability structure reports total VFs to be - * 64 we limit the actual number that can be allocated to 63 so - * that some transmit/receive resources can be reserved to the - * PF. The PCI bus driver already checks for other values out of - * range. + /* While the SR-IOV capability structure reports total VFs to be 64, + * we have to limit the actual number allocated based on two factors. + * First, we reserve some transmit/receive resources for the PF. + * Second, VMDQ also uses the same pools that SR-IOV does. We need to + * account for this, so that we don't accidentally allocate more VFs + * than we have available pools. The PCI bus driver already checks for + * other values out of range. */ - if (num_vfs > IXGBE_MAX_VFS_DRV_LIMIT) + if ((num_vfs + adapter->num_rx_pools) > IXGBE_MAX_VF_FUNCTIONS) return -EPERM; adapter->num_vfs = num_vfs; |