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network: increase transmit/receive queues size to 16384 (#41289)

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A 10G Marvell AQC113 included in an ASRock TRX50WS motherboard NIC claims to
support tx/rx queues as large as 8184.

After boot 'ethtool -g eth0' outputs:
  Ring parameters for eth0:
  RX:			8184
  RX Mini:		n/a
  RX Jumbo:		n/a
  TX:			8184
  TX push buff len:	n/a
  HDS thresh:		n/a
  RX:			2048
  RX Mini:		n/a
  RX Jumbo:		n/a
  TX:			4096
  RX Buf Len:		n/a
  CQE Size:		n/a
  TX Push:		off
  RX Push:		off
  TX push buff len:	n/a
  TCP data split:		n/a
  HDS thresh:		n/a

'ethtool --set-ring eth0 rx 8184 tx 8184 && ethtool -g eth0' yields:
  Ring parameters for eth0:
  RX:			8184
  RX Mini:		n/a
  RX Jumbo:		n/a
  TX:			8184
  TX push buff len:	n/a
  HDS thresh:		n/a
  RX:			8184
  RX Mini:		n/a
  RX Jumbo:		n/a
  TX:			8184
  RX Buf Len:		n/a
  CQE Size:		n/a
  TX Push:		off
  RX Push:		off
  TX push buff len:	n/a
  TCP data split:		n/a
  HDS thresh:		n/a

I can measure a throughput difference between using using buffer sizes
4096 and 8184 on my hardware, so it really seems that this is doing
something beyond buggy firmware.

Original PR https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17635 didn't give any
explanation for the limit of 4096, but that's probably what was supported by
the kernel drivers at the time.

A web search shows that CISCO VIC 15000 supports 16k, so allow up to that.

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Walter McKelvie
2026-03-25 11:37:31 +01:00
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commit 8ddc1c07f6
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man/systemd.link.xml
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@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>TransmitQueues=</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the device's number of transmit queues. An integer in the range 1…4096.
<para>Specifies the device's number of transmit queues. An integer in the range 1…16384.
When unset, the kernel's default will be used.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v248"/>
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>ReceiveQueues=</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the device's number of receive queues. An integer in the range 1…4096.
<para>Specifies the device's number of receive queues. An integer in the range 1…16384.
When unset, the kernel's default will be used.</para>
<xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v248"/>
src/udev/net/link-config.c
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@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ int config_parse_rx_tx_queues(
log_syntax(unit, LOG_WARNING, filename, line, r, "Failed to parse %s=, ignoring assignment: %s.", lvalue, rvalue);
return 0;
}
if (k == 0 || k > 4096) {
if (k == 0 || k > 16384) {
log_syntax(unit, LOG_WARNING, filename, line, 0, "Invalid %s=, ignoring assignment: %s.", lvalue, rvalue);
return 0;
}