PCIe Alternate RID Interpretation (ARI) is an optional feature that
allows devices to have up to 256 different functions. It is
implemented by always setting the PCI slot number to 0 and
re-purposing the 5 bits used to encode the slot number to instead
contain the function number. Combined with the original 3 bits
allocated for the function number, this allows for 256 functions.
This is enabled by default, but it's expected to be a no-op on currently
supported hardware. It's a prerequisite for supporting PCI SR-IOV, and
I want the ARI support to go in early to help shake out any bugs in it.
ARI can be disabled by setting the tunable hw.pci.enable_ari=0.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: Sandvine Inc.
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