[PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: skip page_pool
From: Sandeep Haemoon
Date: Fri Nov 06 2026 - 16:24:44 EST
On NETSYS v2 and later every RX ring gets a page_pool. The pool is
created with order-0 pages and MTK_PP_MAX_BUF_SIZE (PAGE_SIZE minus the
headroom), so it can only serve rings whose buffers fit in one page.
The HW-LRO ring already needs 12K buffers, and 9K jumbo adds more such
rings; for those the descriptor length is larger than a page, so the
pool cannot back them.
Only create the pool when ring->frag_size fits in a page. The other
rings fall back to the netdev_alloc_frag()/mtk_max_lro_buf_alloc() path
that is already there.
Link: https://github.com/mediatek/mtk-openwrt-feeds
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Haemoon <sandeeph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
index ad0fdc413..29370376f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
@@ -2819,7 +2819,12 @@ static int mtk_rx_alloc(struct mtk_eth *eth, int ring_no, int rx_flag)
if (!ring->data)
return -ENOMEM;
- if (mtk_page_pool_enabled(eth)) {
+ /* page_pool hands out order-0 pages and the pool is created with
+ * MTK_PP_MAX_BUF_SIZE, so only rings whose buffers fit in a page can
+ * use it. The larger rings (HW-LRO, and 9K jumbo once enabled) take
+ * the netdev_alloc_frag()/mtk_max_lro_buf_alloc() path below.
+ */
+ if (mtk_page_pool_enabled(eth) && ring->frag_size <= PAGE_SIZE) {
struct page_pool *pp;
pp = mtk_create_page_pool(eth, &ring->xdp_q, ring_no,
--
2.53.0