Re: Possible regression: MSI vector leakage since 2.6.18-rc5ish (Unable to repeatedly allocate/free MSI interrupt)

[Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've established a regression in the MSI vector/irq allocation routine for both
>> i386 and x86_64. Our test labs repeatedly modprobe/rmmod the e1000 driver for
>> serveral minutes which allocates msi vectors and frees them. These tests have
>> been running fine until 2.6.19.
>>
>> git-bisecting I've established that in between commit
>> 04b9267b15206fc902a18de1f78de6c82ca47716 "Eric W. Biederman -- genirq: x86_64
>> irq: Remove the msi assumption that irq == vector" and commit
>> f29bd1ba68c8c6a0f50bd678bbd5a26674018f7c "Ingo Molnar -- genirq: convert the
>> x86_64 architecture to irq-chips" the behaviour broke.
>>
>> The revisions in between seem to be dependent and give all sorts of other
>> issues, so it's rather hard for me to bisect that and give trustworthy results.
>>
>> the e1000 driver hits the 256-mark cycle (I think - it consistently refuses to
>> do 500 msi irq/vector allocations which is my test case) and throws:
>>
>> e1000: eth4: e1000_request_irq: Unable to allocate MSI interrupt Error: -16
>>
>> which is caused by a `if ((err = pci_enable_msi(adapter->pdev))) {` call from
>> the e1000 driver. It's rather easy to hit this mark with the new 4-port e1000
>> adapters :).
>>
>> as for the e1000 code, I can say that even our oldest msi-enabled e1000 driver
>> works fine with 2.6.18 and under. All kernels from 2.6.19 fail consistently.
>>
>> I mostly suspect commit 7bd007e480672c99d8656c7b7b12ef0549432c37 at the
>> moment. Perhaps Eric Biederman can help?
> 
> Does this patch fix it for you?  It looks like i386 vector allocate
> did not have logic to look through the set of vectors more than once.
> 
> The code in this patch is a simplified version of what we have
> on x86_64.

I highly doubt it - I've seen the problem even on this weeks git on x86_64. 
Moreover, I'm at home for the weekend and testing resources are limited :). I'll 
see what I can do

Auke