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Jakub Kicinski 0234362d0a Merge branch 'net-mlx5-hws-optimize-matchers-icm-usage'
Mark Bloch says:

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net/mlx5: HWS, Optimize matchers ICM usage

This series optimizes ICM usage for unidirectional rules and
empty matchers and with the last patch we make hardware steering
the default FDB steering provider for NICs that don't support software
steering.

Hardware steering (HWS) uses a type of rule table container (RTC) that
is unidirectional, so matchers consist of two RTCs to accommodate
bidirectional rules.

This small series enables resizing the two RTCs independently by
tracking the number of rules separately. For extreme cases where all
rules are unidirectional, this results in saving close to half the
memory footprint.

Results for inserting 1M unidirectional rules using a simple module:

			Pages		Memory
Before this patch:	300k		1.5GiB
After this patch:	160k		900MiB

The 'Pages' column measures the number of 4KiB pages the device requests
for itself (the ICM).

The 'Memory' column is the difference between peak usage and baseline
usage (before starting the test) as reported by `free -h`.

In addition, second to last patch of the series handles a case where all
the matcher's rules were deleted: the large RTCs of the matcher are no
longer required, and we can save some more ICM by shrinking the matcher
to its initial size.

Finally the last patch makes hardware steering the default mode
when in swichdev for NICs that don't have software steering support.
====================

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250703185431.445571-1-mbloch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2025-07-07 19:12:19 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.