From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Coiby Xu Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:44:58 +0800 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCH 4/4] i40e: don't open i40iw client for kdump In-Reply-To: References: <20210222070701.16416-1-coxu@redhat.com> <20210222070701.16416-5-coxu@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20210303094458.7yootsa5dvn5cnba@Rk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: Hi Bhupesh, Glad to meet you here:) On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:41:55PM +0530, Bhupesh SHARMA wrote: >Hello Coiby, > >On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:40 PM Coiby Xu wrote: >> >> i40iw consumes huge amounts of memory. For example, on a x86_64 machine, >> i40iw consumed 1.5GB for Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for >> for 1GbE while "craskernel=auto" only reserved 160M. With the module >> parameter "resource_profile=2", we can reduce the memory usage of i40iw >> to ~300M which is still too much for kdump. >> >> Disabling the client registration would spare us the client interface >> operation open , i.e., i40iw_open for iwarp/uda device. Thus memory is >> saved for kdump. >> >> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu >> --- >> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 7 +++++++ >> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c >> index a2dba32383f6..aafc2587f389 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c >> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ >> #include >> #include >> #include >> +#include >> >> #include "i40e.h" >> #include "i40e_prototype.h" >> @@ -741,6 +742,12 @@ int i40e_register_client(struct i40e_client *client) >> { >> int ret = 0; >> >> + /* Don't open i40iw client for kdump because i40iw will consume huge >> + * amounts of memory. >> + */ >> + if (is_kdump_kernel()) >> + return ret; >> + > >Since crashkernel size can be manually set on the command line by a >user, and some users might be fine with a ~300M memory usage by i40iw >client [with resource_profile=2"], in my view, disabling the client >for all kdump cases seems too restrictive. > >We can probably check the crash kernel size allocated ( >$ cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size) and then make a decision >accordingly, so for example something like: > > + if (is_kdump_kernel() && kexec_crash_size < 512M) > + return ret; > >What do you think? > Thanks for the suggestion! After having a discussion with the team, we think it's better to not intervene i40iw in the kernel space. Actually when kexec-tools is building initramfs for kdump, i40iw is not included by default unless a user explicitly asks to include i40iw by changing /etc/kdump.conf, i.e., adding 'dracut_args --add-drivers "i40iw"'. >Regards, >Bhupesh > >> if (!client) { >> ret = -EIO; >> goto out; >> -- >> 2.30.1 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kexec mailing list >> kexec at lists.infradead.org >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > -- Best regards, Coiby