bnx2x: Alloc 4k fragment for each rx ring buffer element
authorGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 16:51:43 +0000 (13:51 -0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 1 Jun 2015 22:56:42 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
commit4cace675d687ebd2d813e90af80ff87ee85202f9
treefa3459f5a1034a9f33d7f39548e6929d59fb2c94
parentccea74457bbdafe33dce8bffcb5cb183aeb5f2bb
bnx2x: Alloc 4k fragment for each rx ring buffer element

The driver allocates one page for each buffer on the rx ring, which is
too much on architectures like ppc64 and can cause unexpected allocation
failures when the system is under stress.  Now, we keep a memory pool
per queue, and if the architecture's PAGE_SIZE is greater than 4k, we
fragment pages and assign each 4k segment to a ring element, which
reduces the overall memory consumption on such architectures.  This
helps avoiding errors like the example below:

[bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge:435(eth1)]Can't alloc sge
[c00000037ffeb900] [d000000075eddeb4] .bnx2x_alloc_rx_sge+0x44/0x200 [bnx2x]
[c00000037ffeb9b0] [d000000075ee0b34] .bnx2x_fill_frag_skb+0x1ac/0x460 [bnx2x]
[c00000037ffebac0] [d000000075ee11f0] .bnx2x_tpa_stop+0x160/0x2e8 [bnx2x]
[c00000037ffebb90] [d000000075ee1560] .bnx2x_rx_int+0x1e8/0xc30 [bnx2x]
[c00000037ffebcd0] [d000000075ee2084] .bnx2x_poll+0xdc/0x3d8 [bnx2x] (unreliable)

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Reviewed-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h