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Message-ID: <20250903075810.17149-1-mheib@redhat.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2025 10:58:09 +0300
From: mheib@...hat.com
To: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Cc: przemyslawx.patynowski@...el.com,
	jiri@...nulli.us,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	horms@...nel.org,
	jacob.e.keller@...el.com,
	aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com,
	anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com,
	Mohammad Heib <mheib@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next,1/2] devlink: Add new "max_mac_per_vf" generic device param

From: Mohammad Heib <mheib@...hat.com>

Add a new device generic parameter to controls the maximum
number of MAC filters allowed per VF.

For example, to limit the number of mac filter per vf to 3 macs:
 $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.0 name max_mac_per_vf \
        value 3 \
        cmode runtime

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mheib@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst | 4 ++++
 include/net/devlink.h                               | 4 ++++
 net/devlink/param.c                                 | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
index 211b58177e12..4b1f2d994254 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-params.rst
@@ -143,3 +143,7 @@ own name.
    * - ``clock_id``
      - u64
      - Clock ID used by the device for registering DPLL devices and pins.
+   * - ``max_mac_per_vf``
+     - u32
+     - Controls the maximum number of MAC address filters a **trusted VF** can
+       use.
diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index b32c9ceeb81d..dde5dcbca625 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -530,6 +530,7 @@ enum devlink_param_generic_id {
 	DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_EVENT_EQ_SIZE,
 	DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_ENABLE_PHC,
 	DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_CLOCK_ID,
+	DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_MAX_MAC_PER_VF,
 
 	/* add new param generic ids above here*/
 	__DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_MAX,
@@ -594,6 +595,9 @@ enum devlink_param_generic_id {
 #define DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_CLOCK_ID_NAME "clock_id"
 #define DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_CLOCK_ID_TYPE DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_U64
 
+#define DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_MAX_MAC_PER_VF_NAME "max_mac_per_vf"
+#define DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_MAX_MAC_PER_VF_TYPE DEVLINK_PARAM_TYPE_U32
+
 #define DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC(_id, _cmodes, _get, _set, _validate)	\
 {									\
 	.id = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_##_id,				\
diff --git a/net/devlink/param.c b/net/devlink/param.c
index 41dcc86cfd94..62fd789ae01c 100644
--- a/net/devlink/param.c
+++ b/net/devlink/param.c
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ static const struct devlink_param devlink_param_generic[] = {
 		.name = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_CLOCK_ID_NAME,
 		.type = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_CLOCK_ID_TYPE,
 	},
+	{
+		.id = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_ID_MAX_MAC_PER_VF,
+		.name = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_MAX_MAC_PER_VF_NAME,
+		.type = DEVLINK_PARAM_GENERIC_MAX_MAC_PER_VF_TYPE,
+	},
 };
 
 static int devlink_param_generic_verify(const struct devlink_param *param)
-- 
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