ixgbe: Reduce memory consumption with larger page sizes
The ixgbe driver allocates pages for its receive rings. It currently uses 512 pages, regardless of page size. During receive handling it adds the unused part of the page back into the rx ring, avoiding the need for a new allocation. On a ppc64 box with 64 threads and 64kB pages, we end up with 512 entries * 64 rx queues * 64kB = 2GB memory used. Even more of a concern is that we use up 2GB of IOMMU space in order to map all this memory. The driver makes a number of decisions based on if PAGE_SIZE is less than 8kB, so use this as the breakpoint and only allocate 128 entries on 8kB or larger page sizes. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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