Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/mlx5: add debugfs stats for doorbell dma pools
From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 06:21:14 EST
On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 10:22:22AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Nimrod Oren <noren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add a debugfs file exposing per-node DMA pool usage for doorbell
> allocations.
>
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/mlx5/<dev>/db_dma_pools
> node block_size used_blocks allocated_blocks
> 0 64 0 0
> 1 64 0 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Nimrod Oren <noren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/alloc.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/mlx5/driver.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/alloc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/alloc.c
> index 3975c726d35c..60ff413999f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/alloc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/alloc.c
> @@ -437,11 +437,37 @@ void mlx5_frag_buf_free(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_frag_buf *buf)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mlx5_frag_buf_free);
>
> +static int mlx5_db_dma_pools_debugfs_show(struct seq_file *file, void *priv)
> +{
> + struct mlx5_core_dev *dev = file->private;
> + int node;
> +
> + mlx5_dma_pools_debugfs_print_header(file);
> +
> + if (!dev->priv.db_node_pools)
> + return 0;
According to patch #1, this check is useless. You are failing mlx5 probe
function if DMA pools initialization failed.
Thanks
> +
> + for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE) {
> + struct mlx5_dma_pool *pool = dev->priv.db_node_pools[node];
> +
> + if (!pool)
> + continue;
> +
> + mlx5_dma_pool_debugfs_stats_print(file, pool);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(mlx5_db_dma_pools_debugfs);
> +
> void mlx5_db_pools_cleanup(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
> {
> struct mlx5_priv *priv = &dev->priv;
> int node;
>
> + debugfs_remove(priv->dbg.db_dma_pools_debugfs);
> + priv->dbg.db_dma_pools_debugfs = NULL;
> +
> for_each_node_state(node, N_POSSIBLE)
> if (priv->db_node_pools[node])
> mlx5_dma_pool_destroy(priv->db_node_pools[node]);
> @@ -471,6 +497,10 @@ int mlx5_db_pools_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
> priv->db_node_pools[node] = pool;
> }
>
> + priv->dbg.db_dma_pools_debugfs =
> + debugfs_create_file("db_dma_pools", 0444, priv->dbg.dbg_root,
> + dev, &mlx5_db_dma_pools_debugfs_fops);
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
> index 2c56bb1d676d..83d0a83bbfbc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h
> @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ struct mlx5_debugfs_entries {
> struct dentry *cq_debugfs;
> struct dentry *cmdif_debugfs;
> struct dentry *frag_buf_dma_pools_debugfs;
> + struct dentry *db_dma_pools_debugfs;
> struct dentry *pages_debugfs;
> struct dentry *lag_debugfs;
> };
> --
> 2.44.0
>