[Intel-wired-lan] Linux 4.12+ memory leak on router with i40e NICs

Paweł Staszewski pstaszewski at itcare.pl
Tue Oct 17 10:59:38 UTC 2017



W dniu 2017-10-17 o 12:51, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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> W dniu 2017-10-17 o 12:20, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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>> W dniu 2017-10-17 o 11:48, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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>>> W dniu 2017-10-17 o 02:44, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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>>>> W dniu 2017-10-17 o 01:56, Alexander Duyck pisze:
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Paweł Staszewski 
>>>>> <pstaszewski at itcare.pl> wrote:
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>>>>>> W dniu 2017-10-16 o 18:26, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
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>>>>>>> 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 
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Also after TSO/GRO on there is memory usage change - and leaking faster
>> Below image from memory usage before change with TSO/GRO OFF and 
>> after enabling TSO/GRO
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>> https://ibb.co/dTqBY6
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>> Thanks
>> Pawel
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> With settings like this:
> ifc='enp2s0f0 enp2s0f1 enp2s0f2 enp2s0f3 enp3s0f0 enp3s0f1 enp3s0f2 
> enp3s0f3'
> for i in $ifc
>         do
>         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 512 
> tx-usecs 128
>         ethtool -K $i gro on
>         ethtool -K $i tso on
>
>         done
>
> Server is leaking about 4-6MB per each 10 seconds
> MEMLEAK:
> 5  MB/10sec
> 6  MB/10sec
> 4  MB/10sec
> 4  MB/10sec
>
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> Other settings TSO/GRO off
> ifc='enp2s0f0 enp2s0f1 enp2s0f2 enp2s0f3 enp3s0f0 enp3s0f1 enp3s0f2 
> enp3s0f3'
> for i in $ifc
>         do
>         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 512 
> tx-usecs 128
>         ethtool -K $i gro off
>         ethtool -K $i tso off
>
>         done
>
> Same leak about 5MB per 10 seconds
> MEMLEAK:
> 5  MB/10sec
> 5  MB/10sec
> 5  MB/10sec
>
>
> Other settings rx-usecs change from 512 to 1024:
> ifc='enp2s0f0 enp2s0f1 enp2s0f2 enp2s0f3 enp3s0f0 enp3s0f1 enp3s0f2 
> enp3s0f3'
> for i in $ifc
>         do
>         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 1024 
> tx-usecs 128
>         ethtool -K $i gro off
>         ethtool -K $i tso off
>
>         done
>
> MEMLEAK:
> 4  MB/10sec
> 3  MB/10sec
> 4  MB/10sec
> 4  MB/10sec
>
>
> So memleak have something to do with rx-usecs (less interrupts but 
> bigger latency for traffic)
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> But also enabling TSO/GRO making leak about 1MB bigger for each 10 
> seconds
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So far best config is:
ifc='enp2s0f0 enp2s0f1 enp2s0f2 enp2s0f3 enp3s0f0 enp3s0f1 enp3s0f2 
enp3s0f3'
for i in $ifc
         do
         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 64 
tx-usecs 512
         ethtool -K $i gro off
         ethtool -K $i tso on

         done

MEMLEAK - about 2MB/10secs
2  MB/10sec
2  MB/10sec
2  MB/10sec


With - rx-usecs set to 256 (about 7-9MB/10secs memleak)
ifc='enp2s0f0 enp2s0f1 enp2s0f2 enp2s0f3 enp3s0f0 enp3s0f1 enp3s0f2 
enp3s0f3'
for i in $ifc
         do
         ethtool -C $i adaptive-rx off adaptive-tx off rx-usecs 256 
tx-usecs 512
         ethtool -K $i gro off
         ethtool -K $i tso on

         done

MEMLEAK:
7  MB/10sec
7  MB/10sec
8  MB/10sec
9  MB/10sec



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