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mlx5ib: Avoid system crash when enabling many VFs
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Authored by vag.singh_oneconvergence.com on Sep 28 2021, 1:37 PM.
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Summary

[PATCH 12/31] FreeBSD OFED support for DPDK MLX5 PMD

a) When enabling many VFs, the total amount of DMA mappings increase
significantly. This causes DMA allocations to take a lot of time
since they are serialized in the kernel.

As a result the driver enters into fatal condition due to
timeout and the system hangs. To recover from this we disable
MR cache for VFs. This also resolves Rx-Error MLX5 PMD issue.

PFs will still have a full cache and VFs cache can be manipulated
as usual after driver load.

b) The fast_registration length is used to convey length for memory
registrations through UMR which can be of any size up to 2^64.
Change the length type to be u64.

Test Plan

Tested on KVM, ESXi, and HyperV/Azure Hypervisors with FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT and FreeBSD12.1-STABLE.

iperf
DPDK MLX5 PMD/testpmd

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