Skip to content
Commit c864769a authored by Petr Machata's avatar Petr Machata Committed by Paolo Abeni
Browse files

mlxsw: Configure descriptor buffers



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>
parent 135433b3
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment