netdev - Re: Linux 4.12+ memory leak on router with i40e NICs

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Message-ID: <f6e2208a-4cdf-3303-5999-92186b437b62@itcare.pl>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:48:28 +0200
From:   Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.parissis@...il.com>,
        "Anders K. Pedersen | Cohaesio" <akp@...aesio.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "alexander.h.duyck@...el.com" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.12+ memory leak on router with i40e NICs



W dniu 2017-10-17 o 02:44, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
>
>
> W dniu 2017-10-17 o 01:56, Alexander Duyck pisze:
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Paweł Staszewski 
>> <pstaszewski@...are.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> W dniu 2017-10-16 o 18:26, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> W dniu 2017-10-16 o 13:20, Pavlos Parissis pisze:
>>>>> On 15/10/2017 02:58 πμ, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Pawel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To clarify is that Dave Miller's tree or Linus's that you are 
>>>>>> talking
>>>>>> about? If it is Dave's tree how long ago was it you pulled it 
>>>>>> since I
>>>>>> think the fix was just pushed by Jeff Kirsher a few days ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The issue should be fixed in the following commit:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c?id=2b9478ffc550f17c6cd8c69057234e91150f5972 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know when it is going to be available on net-next and 
>>>>> linux-stable
>>>>> repos?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Pavlos
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I will make some tests today night with "net" git tree where this 
>>>> patch is
>>>> included.
>>>> Starting from 0:00 CET
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Upgraded and looks like problem is not solved with that patch
>>> Currently running system with
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/
>>> kernel
>>>
>>> Still about 0.5GB of memory is leaking somewhere
>>>
>>> Also can confirm that the latest kernel where memory is not leaking 
>>> (with
>>> use i40e driver intel 710 cards) is 4.11.12
>>> With kernel 4.11.12 - after hour no change in memory usage.
>>>
>>> also checked that with ixgbe instead of i40e with same net.git 
>>> kernel there
>>> is no memleak - after hour same memory usage - so for 100% this is i40e
>>> driver problem.
>> So how long was the run to get the .5GB of memory leaking?
> 1 hour
>
>>
>> Also is there any chance of you being able to bisect to determine
>> where the memory leak was introduced since as you pointed out it
>> didn't exist in 4.11.12 so odds are it was introduced somewhere
>> between 4.11 and the latest kernel release.
> Can be hard cause currently need to back to 4.11.12 - this is 
> production host/router
> Will try to find some free/test router for tests/bicects with i40e 
> driver (intel 710 cards)
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> - Alex
>>
>
>
Also forgoto to add errors for i40e when driver initialize:
[   15.760569] i40e 0000:02:00.1: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.365587] i40e 0000:03:00.3: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.367686] i40e 0000:02:00.2: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.368816] i40e 0000:03:00.0: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.369877] i40e 0000:03:00.2: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.370941] i40e 0000:02:00.3: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.372005] i40e 0000:02:00.0: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on
[   16.373029] i40e 0000:03:00.1: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC adding RX 
filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on

some params that are set for this nic's
         ip link set up dev $i
         ethtool -A $i autoneg off rx off tx off
         ethtool -G $i rx 1024 tx 2048
         ip link set $i txqueuelen 1000
         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 512 
tx-usecs 128
         ethtool -L $i combined 6
         #ethtool -N $i rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn
         ethtool -K $i ntuple on
         ethtool -K $i gro off
         ethtool -K $i tso off