page_pool: Clamp pool size to max 16K pages

page_pool_init() returns E2BIG when the page_pool size goes above 32K
pages. As some drivers are configuring the page_pool size according to
the MTU and ring size, there are cases where this limit is exceeded and
the queue creation fails.

The page_pool size doesn't have to cover a full queue, especially for
larger ring size. So clamp the size instead of returning an error. Do
this in the core to avoid having each driver do the clamping.

The current limit was deemed to high [1] so it was reduced to 16K to avoid
page waste.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/1758532715-820422-3-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com/

Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250926131605.2276734-2-dtatulea@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

diff --git a/net/core/page_pool.c b/net/core/page_pool.c
index 36a98f2bcac3b435dd3ff42ce721c75faaf97e5f..492728f9e021d3564a94d4222293c13fe2195448 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/page_pool.c
+++ b/net/core/page_pool.c
@@ -211,11 +211,7 @@ static int page_pool_init(struct page_pool *pool,
                return -EINVAL;
 
        if (pool->p.pool_size)
-               ring_qsize = pool->p.pool_size;
-
-       /* Sanity limit mem that can be pinned down */
-       if (ring_qsize > 32768)
-               return -E2BIG;
+               ring_qsize = min(pool->p.pool_size, 16384);
 
        /* DMA direction is either DMA_FROM_DEVICE or DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.
         * DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL is for allowing page used for DMA sending,