[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix number of retries for UAR allocation

Dekel Peled dekelp at mellanox.com
Mon Aug 3 11:18:27 CEST 2020


Previous patch added definition of number of retries for UAR allocation.
This value is adequate for x86 systems with 4K pages.
On power9 system with 64K pages the required value is 32.
This patch updates the defined value from 2 to 32.

Fixes: a0bfe9d56f74 ("net/mlx5: fix UAR memory mapping type")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h
index e5f7acc..c26d5a2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h
@@ -202,9 +202,7 @@
  * UAR base address if UAR was not the first object in the UAR page.
  * It caused the PMD failure and we should try to get another UAR
  * till we get the first one with non-NULL base address returned.
- * Should follow the rdma_core internal (not exported) definition
- * MLX5_NUM_NON_FP_BFREGS_PER_UAR.
  */
-#define MLX5_ALLOC_UAR_RETRY 2
+#define MLX5_ALLOC_UAR_RETRY 32
 
 #endif /* RTE_PMD_MLX5_DEFS_H_ */
-- 
1.8.3.1



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