NAME

pvscsi —

VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

device pci
device scbus
device pvscsi

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

pvscsi_load="YES"

The following tunables are settable from the loader(8):

hw.pvscsi.request_ring_pages: controls how many pages are allocated for the device request ring. A non-positive value will cause the driver to choose the value based on device capabilities. A non-zero value will use that many number of pages up to a maximum of 32. The default setting is 0.
hw.pvscsi.max_queue_depth: controls the queue size for the adapter. A non-positive value will cause the driver to choose the value based on number of request ring pages. A non-zero value will set the queue size up to a maximum allowed by the number of request ring pages. Default is 0.
hw.pvscsi.use_msg: setting to nonzero value enables the use of the PVSCSI message queue allowing for disk hot-add and remove without manual rescan needed. Default is 1.
hw.pvscsi.use_msi: setting to nonzero value enables the use of MSI interrupts. Default is 1.
hw.pvscsi.use_msix: setting to nonzero value enables the use of MSI-X interrupts. Default is 1.
hw.pvscsi.use_req_call_threshold: setting to nonzero value enables the request call threshold functionality. TODO. Default is 1.

The pvscsi driver provides support for the VMware Paravirtual SCSI Controller (PVSCSI) in virtual machines by VMware.

The pvscsi driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.0.

Vishal Bhakta <vbhakta@vmware.com>.