On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 09:29:53AM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 02:21:43AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 07:19:53PM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:
> > > Increase the limit on the maximum number of supported virtqueues to 256
> > > to match hardware capabilities.
> >
> > Hmm and are we going to have to tweak it each time new hardware/firmware
> > is out? Can't this be queried in some way?
>
> I thought to make the allocation dynamic once we have support for
> setting max queues through vdpa tool.
Well this will make things a bit harder to figure out then,
right now you can assume no vdpa tool support -> max 16 VQs.
The patch breaks this. Is there a motivation to up this right now,
or should we just wait a bit for vdpa tool support?
> > In fact there's a suggestion in code to remove the limitation -
> > any plans to do this?
>
> Can you be more speicifc, where?
It's right there in the patch:
/* We will remove this limitation once mlx5_vdpa_alloc_resources()
* provides for driver space allocation
*/
>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > typo in subject
> What typo?
virtuques. ispell is your friend.
> >
> > > ---
> > > drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > > index ed7a63e48335..8f2918a8efc6 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c
> > > @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ struct mlx5_vdpa_virtqueue {
> > > /* We will remove this limitation once mlx5_vdpa_alloc_resources()
> > > * provides for driver space allocation
> > > */
> > > -#define MLX5_MAX_SUPPORTED_VQS 16
> > > +#define MLX5_MAX_SUPPORTED_VQS 256
> > >
> > > static bool is_index_valid(struct mlx5_vdpa_dev *mvdev, u16 idx)
> > > {
> > > --
> > > 2.33.1
> >
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