netdev - Re: [PATCH net V2 1/3] net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix header mapping for 64K pages

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Message-ID: <aQshCGafAhuvy2qt@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 10:03:52 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
	Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2 1/3] net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Fix header mapping for 64K
 pages

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 08:48:33AM +0200, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
> 
> HW-GRO is broken on mlx5 for 64K page sizes. The patch in the fixes tag
> didn't take into account larger page sizes when doing an align down
> of max_ksm_entries. For 64K page size, max_ksm_entries is 0 which will skip
> mapping header pages via WQE UMR. This breaks header-data split
> and will result in the following syndrome:
> 
> mlx5_core 0000:00:08.0 eth2: Error cqe on cqn 0x4c9, ci 0x0, qn 0x1133, opcode 0xe, syndrome 0x4, vendor syndrome 0x32
> 00000000: 00 00 00 00 04 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 93 32
> 00000010: 55 00 00 00 fb cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 18 00 00
> 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4a
> 00000030: 00 00 3b c7 93 01 32 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 bf e0
> mlx5_core 0000:00:08.0 eth2: ERR CQE on RQ: 0x1133
> 
> Furthermore, the function that fills in WQE UMRs for the headers
> (mlx5e_build_shampo_hd_umr()) only supports mapping page sizes that
> fit in a single UMR WQE.
> 
> This patch goes back to the old non-aligned max_ksm_entries value and it
> changes mlx5e_build_shampo_hd_umr() to support mapping a large page over
> multiple UMR WQEs.
> 
> This means that mlx5e_build_shampo_hd_umr() can now leave a page only
> partially mapped. The caller, mlx5e_alloc_rx_hd_mpwqe(), ensures that
> there are enough UMR WQEs to cover complete pages by working on
> ksm_entries that are multiples of MLX5E_SHAMPO_WQ_HEADER_PER_PAGE.
> 
> Fixes: 8a0ee54027b1 ("net/mlx5e: SHAMPO, Simplify UMR allocation for headers")
> Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>