linux-kernel - Re: OOM when adding ipv6 route: How to make available more per-cpu memory?

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Message-ID: <4CD83752.1070501@candelatech.com>
Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:45:54 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: OOM when adding ipv6 route:  How to make available more per-cpu
 memory?

On 11/08/2010 03:02 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 10:08 -0700, Ben Greear a écrit :
>
>> At least I don't see any percpu dumps in dmesg.  I vaguely remember
>> someone posting some ipv6 address scalability patches some time back.
>> I think they had to hack on /proc fs as well.  I'll see if I can
>> dig those up.
>>
>>> Make sure udev / hotplug is not the problem, if you create your devices
>>> very fast.
>>
>> We can create the macvlans w/out problem, though I'm sure that could
>> be sped up.  The problem is when we try to add IPv6 addresses to
>> them.
>
> I see. Did you check /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ tunables ?
>
> For example, I bet you need to make route/max_size a bigger value than
> default (4096)
>
> Following is working for me
>
> echo 16384>/proc/sys/net/ipv6/route/max_size
> modprobe dummy numdummies=2000
> for a in `seq 1 1999`
> do
>   ip -6 add add 4444::444:$a/24 dev dummy$a
> done
>
> ip -6 ro | wc -l
> 6008

That helps.  I'm getting all of the IP addrs set now, but
having trouble with some of the default gateways (I have one
routing table per interface).

./local/sbin/ip -6 route replace default via 2002:9:8::1 dev eth7#458 table 726
RTNETLINK answers: No buffer space available

dmesg is full of this:

[247106.294743] ipv6: Neighbour table overflow.


A quick look in /proc didn't show a tunable for this, but I'll
go grub through the code.

As for the route/max_size, it would be nice to see some useful kernel
message in dmesg when this hit.  Just telling the user '-ENOMEM'
is not at all sufficient to help them figure out the problem.

For that matter, why is there such a limit anyway?  IPv4 doesn't appear
to have any such limit?

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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