Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] page_pool: fix IOMMU crash when driver has already unbound

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>]

On 26/10/2024 09.33, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
> On 2024/10/25 22:07, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>
>>>> You and Jesper seems to be mentioning a possible fact that there might
>>>> be 'hundreds of gigs of memory' needed for inflight pages, it would be nice
>>>> to provide more info or reasoning above why 'hundreds of gigs of memory' is
>>>> needed here so that we don't do a over-designed thing to support recording
>>>> unlimited in-flight pages if the driver unbound stalling turns out impossible
>>>> and the inflight pages do need to be recorded.
>>>
>>> I don't have a concrete example of a use that will blow the limit you
>>> are setting (but maybe Jesper does), I am simply objecting to the
>>> arbitrary imposing of any limit at all. It smells a lot of "640k ought
>>> to be enough for anyone".
>>>
>>
>> As I wrote before. In *production* I'm seeing TCP memory reach 24 GiB
>> (on machines with 384GiB memory). I have attached a grafana screenshot
>> to prove what I'm saying.
>>
>> As my co-worker Mike Freemon, have explain to me (and more details in
>> blogposts[1]). It is no coincident that graph have a strange "sealing"
>> close to 24 GiB (on machines with 384GiB total memory).  This is because
>> TCP network stack goes into a memory "under pressure" state when 6.25%
>> of total memory is used by TCP-stack. (Detail: The system will stay in
>> that mode until allocated TCP memory falls below 4.68% of total memory).
>>
>>   [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/unbounded-memory-usage-by-tcp-for-receive-buffers-and-how-we-fixed-it/
> 
> Thanks for the info.

Some more info from production servers.

(I'm amazed what we can do with a simple bpftrace script, Cc Viktor)

In below bpftrace script/oneliner I'm extracting the inflight count, for
all page_pool's in the system, and storing that in a histogram hash.

sudo bpftrace -e '
  rawtracepoint:page_pool_state_release { @cnt[probe]=count();
   @cnt_total[probe]=count();
   $pool=(struct page_pool*)arg0;
   $release_cnt=(uint32)arg2;
   $hold_cnt=$pool->pages_state_hold_cnt;
   $inflight_cnt=(int32)($hold_cnt - $release_cnt);
   @inflight=hist($inflight_cnt);
  }
  interval:s:1 {time("\n%H:%M:%S\n");
   print(@cnt); clear(@cnt);
   print(@inflight);
   print(@cnt_total);
  }'

The page_pool behavior depend on how NIC driver use it, so I've run this 
on two prod servers with drivers bnxt and mlx5, on a 6.6.51 kernel.

Driver: bnxt_en
- kernel 6.6.51

@cnt[rawtracepoint:page_pool_state_release]: 8447
@inflight:
[0]             507 |                                        |
[1]             275 |                                        |
[2, 4)          261 |                                        |
[4, 8)          215 |                                        |
[8, 16)         259 |                                        |
[16, 32)        361 |                                        |
[32, 64)        933 |                                        |
[64, 128)      1966 |                                        |
[128, 256)   937052 |@@@@@@@@@                               |
[256, 512)  5178744 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[512, 1K)     73908 |                                        |
[1K, 2K)    1220128 |@@@@@@@@@@@@                            |
[2K, 4K)    1532724 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                         |
[4K, 8K)    1849062 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                      |
[8K, 16K)   1466424 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                          |
[16K, 32K)   858585 |@@@@@@@@                                |
[32K, 64K)   693893 |@@@@@@                                  |
[64K, 128K)  170625 |@                                       |

Driver: mlx5_core
  - Kernel: 6.6.51

@cnt[rawtracepoint:page_pool_state_release]: 1975
@inflight:
[128, 256)         28293 |@@@@                               |
[256, 512)        184312 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@        |
[512, 1K)              0 |                                   |
[1K, 2K)            4671 |                                   |
[2K, 4K)          342571 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[4K, 8K)          180520 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@        |
[8K, 16K)          96483 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                     |
[16K, 32K)         25133 |@@@                                |
[32K, 64K)          8274 |@                                  |


The key thing to notice that we have up-to 128,000 pages in flight on
these random production servers. The NIC have 64 RX queue configured,
thus also 64 page_pool objects.

--Jesper