• Petr Machata's avatar
    mlxsw: Configure descriptor buffers · c864769a
    Petr Machata authored
    Spectrum machines have two resources related to keeping packets in an
    internal buffer: bytes (allocated in cell-sized units) for packet payload,
    and descriptors, for keeping metadata. Currently, mlxsw only configures the
    bytes part of the resource management.
    
    Spectrum switches permit a full parallel configuration for the descriptor
    resources, including port-pool and port-TC-pool quotas. By default, these
    are all configured to use pool 14, with an infinite quota. The ingress pool
    14 is then infinite in size.
    
    However, egress pool 14 has finite size by default. The size is chip
    dependent, but always much lower than what the chip actually permits. As a
    result, we can easily construct workloads that exhaust the configured
    descriptor limit.
    
    Fix the issue by configuring the egress descriptor pool to be infinite in
    size as well. This will maintain the configuration philosophy of the
    default configuration, but will unlock all chip resources to be usable.
    
    In the code, include both the configuration of ingress and ingress, mostly
    for clarity.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
    c864769a
spectrum_buffers.c 51 KB