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William Tu
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By experiments, a single queue representor netdev consumes kernel
memory around 2.8MB, and 1.8MB out of the 2.8MB is due to page
pool for the RXQ. Scaling to a thousand representors consumes 2.8GB,
which becomes a memory pressure issue for embedded devices such as
BlueField-2 16GB / BlueField-3 32GB memory.
Since representor netdevs mostly handles miss traffic, and ideally,
most of the traffic will be offloaded, reduce the default non-uplink
rep netdev's RXQ default depth from 1024 to 256 if mdev is ecpf eswitch
manager. This saves around 1MB of memory per regular RQ,
(1024 - 256) * 2KB, allocated from page pool.
With rxq depth of 256, the netlink page pool tool reports
$./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml \
--dump page-pool-get
{'id': 277,
'ifindex': 9,
'inflight': 128,
'inflight-mem': 786432,
'napi-id': 775}]
This is due to mtu 1500 + headroom consumes half pages, so 256 rxq
entries consumes around 128 pages (thus create a page pool with
size 128), shown above at inflight.
Note that each netdev has multiple types of RQs, including
Regular RQ, XSK, PTP, Drop, Trap RQ. Since non-uplink representor
only supports regular rq, this patch only changes the regular RQ's
default depth.
Signed-off-by: William Tu <witu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bodong Wang <bodong@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250209101716.112774-8-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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