diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c
index 79301d116667..eb2e1f2138e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.c
@@ -25,18 +25,33 @@ u16 mlx5e_get_linear_rq_headroom(struct mlx5e_params *params,
 	return headroom;
 }
 
-u32 mlx5e_rx_get_linear_frag_sz(struct mlx5e_params *params,
-				struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk)
+u32 mlx5e_rx_get_min_frag_sz(struct mlx5e_params *params,
+			     struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk)
 {
 	u32 hw_mtu = MLX5E_SW2HW_MTU(params, params->sw_mtu);
 	u16 linear_rq_headroom = mlx5e_get_linear_rq_headroom(params, xsk);
-	u32 frag_sz = linear_rq_headroom + hw_mtu;
+
+	return linear_rq_headroom + hw_mtu;
+}
+
+u32 mlx5e_rx_get_linear_frag_sz(struct mlx5e_params *params,
+				struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk)
+{
+	u32 frag_sz = mlx5e_rx_get_min_frag_sz(params, xsk);
 
 	/* AF_XDP doesn't build SKBs in place. */
 	if (!xsk)
 		frag_sz = MLX5_SKB_FRAG_SZ(frag_sz);
 
-	/* XDP in mlx5e doesn't support multiple packets per page. */
+	/* XDP in mlx5e doesn't support multiple packets per page. AF_XDP is a
+	 * special case. It can run with frames smaller than a page, as it
+	 * doesn't allocate pages dynamically. However, here we pretend that
+	 * fragments are page-sized: it allows to treat XSK frames like pages
+	 * by redirecting alloc and free operations to XSK rings and by using
+	 * the fact there are no multiple packets per "page" (which is a frame).
+	 * The latter is important, because frames may come in a random order,
+	 * and we will have trouble assemblying a real page of multiple frames.
+	 */
 	if (mlx5e_rx_is_xdp(params, xsk))
 		frag_sz = max_t(u32, frag_sz, PAGE_SIZE);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.h
index 3a615d663d84..989d8f429438 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/params.h
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ static inline bool mlx5e_qid_validate(const struct mlx5e_profile *profile,
 
 u16 mlx5e_get_linear_rq_headroom(struct mlx5e_params *params,
 				 struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk);
+u32 mlx5e_rx_get_min_frag_sz(struct mlx5e_params *params,
+			     struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk);
 u32 mlx5e_rx_get_linear_frag_sz(struct mlx5e_params *params,
 				struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk);
 u8 mlx5e_mpwqe_log_pkts_per_wqe(struct mlx5e_params *params,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
index 7c49a66d28c9..475b6bd5d29b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct sk_buff *mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_mpwrq_linear(struct mlx5e_rq *rq,
 
 	/* head_offset is not used in this function, because di->xsk.data and
 	 * di->addr point directly to the necessary place. Furthermore, in the
-	 * current implementation, one page = one packet = one frame, so
+	 * current implementation, UMR pages are mapped to XSK frames, so
 	 * head_offset should always be 0.
 	 */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(head_offset);
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c
index f701e4f3c076..d549f770cb4f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/setup.c
@@ -4,18 +4,23 @@
 #include "setup.h"
 #include "en/params.h"
 
+/* It matches XDP_UMEM_MIN_CHUNK_SIZE, but as this constant is private and may
+ * change unexpectedly, and mlx5e has a minimum valid stride size for striding
+ * RQ, keep this check in the driver.
+ */
+#define MLX5E_MIN_XSK_CHUNK_SIZE 2048
+
 bool mlx5e_validate_xsk_param(struct mlx5e_params *params,
 			      struct mlx5e_xsk_param *xsk,
 			      struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev)
 {
-	/* AF_XDP doesn't support frames larger than PAGE_SIZE, and the current
-	 * mlx5e XDP implementation doesn't support multiple packets per page.
-	 */
-	if (xsk->chunk_size != PAGE_SIZE)
+	/* AF_XDP doesn't support frames larger than PAGE_SIZE. */
+	if (xsk->chunk_size > PAGE_SIZE ||
+			xsk->chunk_size < MLX5E_MIN_XSK_CHUNK_SIZE)
 		return false;
 
 	/* Current MTU and XSK headroom don't allow packets to fit the frames. */
-	if (mlx5e_rx_get_linear_frag_sz(params, xsk) > xsk->chunk_size)
+	if (mlx5e_rx_get_min_frag_sz(params, xsk) > xsk->chunk_size)
 		return false;
 
 	/* frag_sz is different for regular and XSK RQs, so ensure that linear