netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 38032] New: default values of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/udp_mem does not consider huge page allocatio

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:03:18 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, starlight@...nacle.cx,
	Rafael Aquini <aquini@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 38032] New: default values of
 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/udp_mem does not consider huge page allocatio


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On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:35:22 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38032
> 
>            Summary: default values of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/udp_mem does not
>                     consider huge page allocatio
>            Product: Memory Management
>            Version: 2.5
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Other
>         AssignedTo: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
>         ReportedBy: starlight@...nacle.cx
>         Regression: No
> 
> 
> In the RHEL 5.5 back-port of this tunable we ran into trouble locking up
> systems because the boot-time default is set based on physical memory does not
> account for the hugepages= in the boot parameters.  So the UDP socket buffer
> limit can exceed phyisical memory.  Don't know if this is an issue in mainline
> kernels but it seems likely so reporting this as a courtsey.  Seems like it
> would be easy to fix the default to account for the memory reserved by
> hugepages which is not available for slab allocations.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714833
> 

Yes, we've made similar mistakes in other places.

I don't think we really have an official formula for what callers
should be doing here.  net/ipv4/udp.c:udp_init() does

        nr_pages = totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages;                            

which assumes that totalram_pages does not include the pages which were
lost to hugepage allocations.

I *think* that this is now the case, but it wasn't always the case - we
made relatively recent fixes to the totalram_pages maintenance.

Perhaps UDP should be using the misnamed nr_free_buffer_pages() here.
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