From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 8:37 PM
To: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net] octeontx2-pf: Set maximum queue size to 16K
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These recycling will impact on performance, right ? else, why didn't page
pool made this size as constant.
Page Pool doesn't need huge ptr_ring sizes to successfully recycle pages.
Especially given that the recent PP optimizations made locking recycling
happen much more rarely.
Got it. Thanks.
Re "size as constant" -- because lots of NICs don't need more than 256 or 512
descriptors and it would be only a waste to create page_pools with huge
ptr_rings for them. Queue sizes bigger than 1024 (ok, maybe
2048) is the moment when the linear scale stops working. That's why I
believe that going out of [64, 2048] for page_pools doesn't make much
sense.
So, will clamp to 2048 in page_pool_init() ? But it looks odd to me, as
User requests > 2048, but will never be aware that it is clamped to 2048.
Better do this clamping in Driver and print a warning message ?
-Ratheesh