[SRU][N:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 1/5] net/mlx5: Ensure fw pages are always allocated on same NUMA

Stav Aviram saviram at nvidia.com
Mon Oct 6 09:34:39 UTC 2025


From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe at nvidia.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2126876

When firmware asks the driver to allocate more pages, using event of
give_pages, the driver should always allocate it from same NUMA, the
original device NUMA. Current code uses dev_to_node() which can result
in different NUMA as it is changed by other driver flows, such as
mlx5_dma_zalloc_coherent_node(). Instead, use saved numa node for
allocating firmware pages.

Fixes: 311c7c71c9bb ("net/mlx5e: Allocate DMA coherent memory on reader NUMA node")
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch at nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610151514.1094735-2-mbloch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit f37258133c1e95e61db532e14067e28b4881bf24)
Signed-off-by: Stav Aviram <saviram at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
index dcf58efac159..e0581c6f9cec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/pagealloc.c
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static void free_4k(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u64 addr, u32 function)
 static int alloc_system_page(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 function)
 {
 	struct device *device = mlx5_core_dma_dev(dev);
-	int nid = dev_to_node(device);
+	int nid = dev->priv.numa_node;
 	struct page *page;
 	u64 zero_addr = 1;
 	u64 addr;
-- 
2.38.1




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