1.\" Copyright (c) 2018 VMware, Inc. 2.\" 3.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: (BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0) 4.\" 5.\" $FreeBSD$ 6.Dd February 27, 2023 7.Dt PVSCSI 4 8.Os 9.Sh NAME 10.Nm pvscsi 11.Nd VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller 12.Sh SYNOPSIS 13To compile this driver into the kernel, 14place the following line in your 15kernel configuration file: 16.Bd -ragged -offset indent 17.Cd "device pci" 18.Cd "device scbus" 19.Cd "device pvscsi" 20.Ed 21.Pp 22Alternatively, to load the driver as a 23module at boot time, place the following line in 24.Xr loader.conf 5 : 25.Bd -literal -offset indent 26pvscsi_load="YES" 27.Ed 28.Pp 29The following tunables are settable from the 30.Xr loader 8 : 31.Bl -ohang 32.It Va hw.pvscsi.request_ring_pages 33controls how many pages are allocated for the device request ring. 34A non-positive value will cause the driver to choose the value based on device 35capabilities. 36A non-zero value will use that many number of pages up to a maximum of 32. 37The default setting is 0. 38.It Va hw.pvscsi.max_queue_depth 39controls the queue size for the adapter. 40A non-positive value will cause the driver to choose the value based on number 41of request ring pages. 42A non-zero value will set the queue size up to a maximum allowed by the number 43of request ring pages. 44Default is 0. 45.It Va hw.pvscsi.use_msg 46setting to nonzero value enables the use of the PVSCSI message queue allowing 47for disk hot-add and remove without manual rescan needed. 48Default is 1. 49.It Va hw.pvscsi.use_msi 50setting to nonzero value enables the use of MSI interrupts. 51Default is 1. 52.\".It Va hw.pvscsi.use_msix 53.\"setting to nonzero value enables the use of MSI-X interrupts. 54.\"Default is 1. 55.It Va hw.pvscsi.use_req_call_threshold 56setting to nonzero value enables the request call threshold functionality. 57TODO. 58Default is 1. 59.El 60.Sh DESCRIPTION 61The 62.Nm 63driver provides support for the VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller (PVSCSI) in 64virtual machines by VMware. 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr cam 4 , 67.Xr da 4 68.Sh HISTORY 69The 70.Nm 71driver first appeared in 72.Fx 13.0 . 73.Sh AUTHORS 74.An Vishal Bhakta Aq Mt vbhakta@vmware.com . 75