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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
index d894a88fa9f2..972e8e9df585 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
@@ -608,6 +608,11 @@ enum {
RELEASE_ALL_PAGES_MASK = 0x4000,
};
+/* This limit is based on the capability of the firmware as it cannot release
+ * more than 50000 back to the host in one go.
+ */
+#define MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES (-50000)
+
static int req_pages_handler(struct notifier_block *nb,
unsigned long type, void *data)
{
@@ -639,7 +644,16 @@ static int req_pages_handler(struct notifier_block *nb,
req->dev = dev;
req->func_id = func_id;
- req->npages = npages;
+
+ /* npages > 0 means HCA asking host to allocate/give pages,
+ * npages < 0 means HCA asking host to reclaim back the pages allocated.
+ * Here we are restricting the maximum number of pages that can be
+ * reclaimed to be MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES. Note that MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES is
+ * a negative value.
+ * Since MAX_RECLAIM is negative, we are using max() to restrict
+ * req->npages (and not min ()).
+ */
+ req->npages = max_t(s32, npages, MAX_RECLAIM_NPAGES);
req->ec_function = ec_function;
req->release_all = release_all;
INIT_WORK(&req->work, pages_work_handler);