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Bjorn Helgaas 4695ca9d17 ixgbe: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
Previously the driver used pcie_get_minimum_link() to warn when the NIC
is in a slot that can't supply as much bandwidth as the NIC could use.

pcie_get_minimum_link() can be misleading because it finds the slowest link
and the narrowest link (which may be different links) without considering
the total bandwidth of each link.  For a path with a 16 GT/s x1 link and a
2.5 GT/s x16 link, it returns 2.5 GT/s x1, which corresponds to 250 MB/s of
bandwidth, not the true available bandwidth of about 1969 MB/s for a
16 GT/s x1 link.

Use pcie_print_link_status() to report PCIe link speed and possible
limitations instead of implementing this in the driver itself.  This finds
the slowest link in the path to the device by computing the total bandwidth
of each link and compares that with the capabilities of the device.

The dmesg change is:

  - PCI Express bandwidth of %dGT/s available
  - (Speed:%s, Width: x%d, Encoding Loss:%s)
  + %u.%03u Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth (%s x%d link)

or, if the device is capable of better performance than is available in the
current slot:

  - This is not sufficient for optimal performance of this card.
  - For optimal performance, at least %dGT/s of bandwidth is required.
  - A slot with more lanes and/or higher speed is suggested.
  + %u.%03u Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by %s x%d link at %s (capable of %u.%03u Gb/s with %s x%d link)

Note that the driver previously used dev_warn() to suggest using a
different slot, but pcie_print_link_status() uses dev_info() because if the
platform has no faster slot available, the user can't do anything about the
warning and may not want to be bothered with it.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2018-05-25 17:29:49 -05:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.