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The flow counters bulk query buffer is allocated once during mlx5_fc_init_stats(). For PFs and VFs this buffer usually takes a little more than 512KB of memory, which is aligned to the next power of 2, to 1MB. For SFs, this buffer is reduced and takes around 128 Bytes. The buffer size determines the maximum number of flow counters that can be queried at a time. Thus, having a bigger buffer can improve performance for users that need to query many flow counters. There are cases that don't use many flow counters and don't need a big buffer (e.g. SFs, VFs). Since this size is critical with large scale, in these cases the buffer size should be reduced. In order to reduce memory consumption while maintaining query performance, change the query buffer's allocation scheme to the following: - First allocate the buffer with small initial size. - If the number of counters surpasses the initial size, resize the buffer to the maximum size. The buffer only grows and isn't shrank, because users with many flow counters don't care about the buffer size and we don't want to add resize overhead if the current number of counters drops. This solution is preferable to the current one, which is less accurate and only addresses SFs. Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.