IB/mlx5: Avoid system crash when enabling many VFs
commit afd02cd3 upstream. When enabling many VFs, the total amount of DMA mappings increase significantly. This causes DMA allocations to take a lot of time since they are serialized in the kernel. As a result the driver enters into fatal condition due to timeout and the system hangs. To recover from this we disable MR cache for VFs. PFs will still have a full cache and VFs cache can be manipulated as usual after driver load. Fixes: e126ba97 ('mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters') Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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