Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/mlx5e: Clamp page_pool size to max

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Tue Sep 23 2025 - 10:23:58 EST


On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:18:35 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> When the user configures a large ring size (8K) and a large MTU (9000)
> in HW-GRO mode, the queue will fail to allocate due to the size of the
> page_pool going above the limit.

Please do some testing. A PP cache of 32k is just silly, you should
probably use a smaller limit.