ibmvnic: Allow multiple ltbs in rxpool ltb_set
Allow multiple LTBs in the rxpool's ltb_set. The first n-1 LTBs will all
be of the same size. The size of the last LTB in the set depends on the
number of buffers and buffer (mtu) size.
Having a set of LTBs per pool provides a couple of benefits.
First, with the current value of IBMVNIC_MAX_LTB_SIZE of 16MB, with an
MTU of 9000, we need a LTB (DMA buffer) of that size but the allocation
can fail in low memory conditions. With a set of LTBs per pool, we can
use several smaller (8MB) LTBs and hopefully have fewer allocation
failures. (See also comments in ibmvnic.h on the trade-off with smaller
LTBs)
Second since the kernel limits the size of the DMA buffer to 16MB (based
on MAX_ORDER), with a single DMA buffer per pool, the pool is also limited
to 16MB. This in turn limits the number of buffers per pool to 1763 when
MTU is 9000. With a set of LTBs per pool, we can have upto the max of 4096
buffers per pool even when MTU is 9000.
Suggested-by: Brian King <brking@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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