On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:21:22PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Currently, the maximum number of queues available for one vport is 16.
> This is hardcoded, but then the function calculating the optimal number
> of queues takes min(16, num_online_cpus()).
> On order to be able to allocate more queues, which will be then used for
nit: s/On/In
> XDP, stop hardcoding 16 and rely on what the device gives us. Instead of
> num_online_cpus(), which is considered suboptimal since at least 2013,
> use netif_get_num_default_rss_queues() to still have free queues in the
> pool.
Should we update older drivers as well?
> nr_cpu_ids number of Tx queues are needed only for lockless XDP sending,
> the regular stack doesn't benefit from that anyhow.
> On a 128-thread Xeon, this now gives me 32 regular Tx queues and leaves
> 224 free for XDP (128 of which will handle XDP_TX, .ndo_xdp_xmit(), and
> XSk xmit when enabled).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.loba...@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c | 8 +-------
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
> index c15833928ea1..2f221c0abad8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c
> @@ -1234,13 +1234,7 @@ int idpf_vport_calc_total_qs(struct idpf_adapter
> *adapter, u16 vport_idx,
> num_req_tx_qs = vport_config->user_config.num_req_tx_qs;
> num_req_rx_qs = vport_config->user_config.num_req_rx_qs;
> } else {
> - int num_cpus;
> -
> - /* Restrict num of queues to cpus online as a default
> - * configuration to give best performance. User can always
> - * override to a max number of queues via ethtool.
> - */
> - num_cpus = num_online_cpus();
> + u32 num_cpus = netif_get_num_default_rss_queues();
>
> dflt_splitq_txq_grps = min_t(int, max_q->max_txq, num_cpus);
> dflt_singleq_txqs = min_t(int, max_q->max_txq, num_cpus);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
> index 3d2413b8684f..135af3cc243f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_virtchnl.c
> @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ int idpf_vport_alloc_max_qs(struct idpf_adapter *adapter,
> max_tx_q = le16_to_cpu(caps->max_tx_q) / default_vports;
> if (adapter->num_alloc_vports < default_vports) {
> max_q->max_rxq = min_t(u16, max_rx_q, IDPF_MAX_Q);
> - max_q->max_txq = min_t(u16, max_tx_q, IDPF_MAX_Q);
> + max_q->max_txq = min_t(u16, max_tx_q, IDPF_LARGE_MAX_Q);
> } else {
> max_q->max_rxq = IDPF_MIN_Q;
> max_q->max_txq = IDPF_MIN_Q;
> --
> 2.48.1
>
