i40e: Remove limit of 64 max queues per channel

It is safe to remove the upper limit of 64 queues on a channel
VSI. The upper bound is determined by the VSI's num_queue_pairs
and gets validated when the queue mapping info through mqprio
interface is subject to bound checking in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
index 5829715fa342..e019baa905c5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@
 #define I40E_AQ_LEN                     256
 #define I40E_AQ_WORK_LIMIT              66 /* max number of VFs + a little */
 #define I40E_MAX_USER_PRIORITY          8
-#define I40E_MAX_QUEUES_PER_CH          64
 #define I40E_DEFAULT_TRAFFIC_CLASS      BIT(0)
 #define I40E_DEFAULT_MSG_ENABLE         4
 #define I40E_QUEUE_WAIT_RETRY_LIMIT     10
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index 4a964d6e4a9e..173e924d4dae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -5629,14 +5629,6 @@ static int i40e_validate_num_queues(struct i40e_pf *pf, int num_queues,
                 return -EINVAL;
 
         *reconfig_rss = false;
-
-        if (num_queues > I40E_MAX_QUEUES_PER_CH) {
-                dev_err(&pf->pdev->dev,
-                        "Failed to create VMDq VSI. User requested num_queues (%d) > I40E_MAX_QUEUES_PER_VSI (%u)\n",
-                        num_queues, I40E_MAX_QUEUES_PER_CH);
-                return -EINVAL;
-        }
-
         if (vsi->current_rss_size) {
                 if (num_queues > vsi->current_rss_size) {
                         dev_dbg(&pf->pdev->dev,