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authorDragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>2022-12-13 14:37:07 +0200
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>2023-03-28 13:43:57 -0700
commit08c9b61b071ca780ac2740b9de755d2ebac2a2e5 (patch)
treed669b2042b2643a649bf2aa3d76afb5c06cf3816 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/txrx.h
parentca6ef9f031946134030e1b583e172c2e47c9a992 (diff)
net/mlx5e: RX, Remove internal page_cache
This patch removes the internal rx page_cache and uses the generic page_pool api only. It used to be that the page_pool couldn't handle all the mlx5 driver usecases, but with the introduction of skb recycling and page fragmentaton in the page_pool full switch can now be made. Some benfits of this transition: * Better page recycling in the cases when the page_cache was suffering from head of queue blocking. The page_pool doesn't have this issue. * DMA mapping/unmapping can be managed by the page_pool. * mlx5e_rq size reduced by more than 50% due to the page_cache array being deleted. This patch only removes the page_cache. Downstream patches will enable the required page_pool features and will add further fine-tuning. Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
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