Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] eth: mlx4: create a page pool for Rx

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:06:35 -0800

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:01:08 +0200 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> > The pool_size is just the size of the cache, how many unallocated
> > DMA mapped pages we can keep around before freeing them to system
> > memory. It has no implications for correctness.  
> 
> Right, it doesn't hurt correctness.
> But, we better have the cache size derived from the overall ring buffer 
> size, so that the memory consumption/footprint reflects the user 
> configuration.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> ring->size * (priv->frag_info[i].frag_stride for i < num_frags).
> 
> or roughly ring->size * MLX4_EN_EFF_MTU(dev->mtu).

These calculations appear to produce byte count?
The ring size is in *pages*. Frag is also somewhat irrelevant, given
that we're talking about full pages here, not 2k frags. So I think 
I'll go with:

	pp.pool_size =
		size * DIV_ROUND_UP(MLX4_EN_EFF_MTU(dev->mtu), PAGE_SIZE);