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Commit 08c9b61b authored by Dragos Tatulea's avatar Dragos Tatulea Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5e: RX, Remove internal page_cache



This patch removes the internal rx page_cache and uses the generic
page_pool api only. It used to be that the page_pool couldn't handle all
the mlx5 driver usecases, but with the introduction of skb recycling and
page fragmentaton in the page_pool full switch can now be made. Some
benfits of this transition:
* Better page recycling in the cases when the page_cache was suffering
  from head of queue blocking. The page_pool doesn't have this issue.
* DMA mapping/unmapping can be managed by the page_pool.
* mlx5e_rq size reduced by more than 50% due to the page_cache array
  being deleted.

This patch only removes the page_cache. Downstream patches will enable
the required page_pool features and will add further fine-tuning.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
parent ca6ef9f0
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