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

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:18:35PM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.
> 
> This change clamps the pool_size to the limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> index 5e007bb3bad1..e56052895776 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
> @@ -989,6 +989,8 @@ static int mlx5e_alloc_rq(struct mlx5e_params *params,
>  		/* Create a page_pool and register it with rxq */
>  		struct page_pool_params pp_params = { 0 };
>  
> +		pool_size = min_t(u32, pool_size, PAGE_POOL_SIZE_LIMIT);

pool_size is u32 and PAGE_POOL_SIZE_LIMIT is a constant.
AFAIK min() would work just fine here.

> +
>  		pp_params.order     = 0;
>  		pp_params.flags     = PP_FLAG_DMA_MAP | PP_FLAG_DMA_SYNC_DEV;
>  		pp_params.pool_size = pool_size;
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 
>