[PATCH net-next 15/15] net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Allow high order pages in zerocopy mode
From: Tariq Toukan
Date: Mon Feb 23 2026 - 15:50:03 EST
From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
Allow high order pages only when SHAMPO mode is enabled (hw-gro) and the
queue is used for zerocopy (has memory provider ops set). The limit is
128K and it was chosen for the following reasons:
- 256K size requires a special case during MTT calculation to split the
page in two. That's because two MTTs are needed to form an octword.
- Higher sizes require increasing WQE size and/or reducing the number
of WQEs.
- Having the RQ lined with too few large pages can lead to refill
issues.
Results show an increase in BW and a decrease in CPU usage.
The benchmark was done with the zcrx samples from liburing [0].
rx_buf_len=4K, oncpu [1]:
packets=3358832 (MB=820027), rps=55794 (MB/s=13621)
Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
Average: 9 1.56 0.00 18.09 13.42 0.00 66.80 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.12
rx_buf_len=128K, oncpu [2]:
packets=3781376 (MB=923187), rps=62813 (MB/s=15335)
Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
Average: 9 0.33 0.00 7.61 18.86 0.00 73.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.12
rx_buf_len=4K, offcpu [3]:
packets=3460368 (MB=844816), rps=57481 (MB/s=14033)
Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
Average: 9 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.00 0.00 92.63 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.11
Average: 11 3.04 0.00 68.09 28.87 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
rx_buf_len=128K, offcpu [4]:
packets=4119840 (MB=1005820), rps=68435 (MB/s=16707)
Average: CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
Average: 9 0.00 0.00 0.87 0.00 0.00 63.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 35.36
Average: 11 1.96 0.00 43.68 54.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
[0] https://github.com/isilence/liburing/tree/zcrx/rx-buf-len
[1] commands:
$> taskset -c 9 ./zcrx 6 -i eth2 -q 9 -A 1 -B 4096 -S 33554432
$> ./send-zerocopy tcp -6 -D 2001:db8::1 -t 60 -C 0 -l 1 -b 1 -n 1 -z 1 -d -s 256000
[2] commands:
$> taskset -c 9 ./zcrx 6 -i eth2 -q 9 -A 1 -B 131072 -S 33554432
$> ./send-zerocopy tcp -6 -D 2001:db8::1 -t 60 -C 0 -l 1 -b 1 -n 1 -z 1 -d -s 256000
[3] commands:
$> taskset -c 11 ./zcrx 6 -i eth2 -q 9 -A 1 -B 4096 -S 33554432
$> ./send-zerocopy tcp -6 -D 2001:db8::1 -t 60 -C 0 -l 1 -b 1 -n 1 -z 1 -d -s 256000
[4] commands:
$> taskset -c 11 ./zcrx 6 -i eth2 -q 9 -A 1 -B 131072 -S 33554432
$> ./send-zerocopy tcp -6 -D 2001:db8::1 -t 60 -C 0 -l 1 -b 1 -n 1 -z 1 -d -s 256000
Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
index 59e38e7e067e..67dc38981101 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -5586,12 +5586,40 @@ static int mlx5e_queue_validate_qcfg(struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue_config *qcfg,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
{
- if (qcfg->rx_page_size != PAGE_SIZE)
+ struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
+ struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev = priv->mdev;
+ u32 max;
+
+ if (!is_power_of_2(qcfg->rx_page_size)) {
+ netdev_err(priv->netdev, "rx_page_size not power of 2: %u",
+ qcfg->rx_page_size);
return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ max = mlx5e_mpwrq_max_page_size(mdev);
+ if (qcfg->rx_page_size < PAGE_SIZE || qcfg->rx_page_size > max) {
+ netdev_err(priv->netdev,
+ "Selected rx_page_size %u not in supported range [%lu, %u]\n",
+ qcfg->rx_page_size, PAGE_SIZE, max);
+ return -ERANGE;
+ }
return 0;
}
+static bool mlx5e_queue_validate_page_size(struct net_device *dev,
+ struct netdev_queue_config *qcfg,
+ int queue_index)
+{
+ if (qcfg->rx_page_size == PAGE_SIZE)
+ return true;
+
+ if (!netif_rxq_has_unreadable_mp(dev, queue_index))
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static int mlx5e_queue_mem_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
struct netdev_queue_config *qcfg,
void *newq, int queue_index)
@@ -5623,6 +5651,12 @@ static int mlx5e_queue_mem_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
goto unlock;
}
+ if (!mlx5e_queue_validate_page_size(dev, qcfg, queue_index)) {
+ netdev_err(priv->netdev, "High order pages are supported only in Zero-Copy mode\n");
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto unlock;
+ }
+
err = mlx5e_open_channel(priv, queue_index, ¶ms, qcfg, NULL,
&new->c);
unlock:
--
2.44.0