From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.7.8/amd64 full interrupt hangs due to iwlwifi under big nfs copies out
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:14:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130223061414.GA16883@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361351703.8629.5.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:15:03AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 10:12 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 08:21 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 11:03 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 21:17 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > chrome: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x4020
> > > > > > Pid: 8730, comm: chrome Tainted: G O 3.7.8-amd64-preempt-20121226-fixwd #1
> > > > > > Call Trace:
> > > > > > <IRQ> [<ffffffff810d5f38>] warn_alloc_failed+0x117/0x12c
> > > >
> > > > > You could try to load iwlwifi with amsdu_size_8K set to 0 (disable)
> > > > >
> > > > > It should hopefully use order-0 pages
> > > >
> > > > It will, do that then, unfortunately it can't switch at runtime because
> > > > it advertised this support to the access point or clients.
> > >
> > > What are the drawbacks of setting amsdu_size_8K to 0 by default ?
> >
> > We're discussing this now, the only downside would be that we couldn't
> > receive 8k A-MSDUs. Thing is, practically nobody uses A-MSDU anyway, and
> > even when I suspect the difference between 4k and 8k won't be huge.
>
> OTOH, this affects the protocol, and when you really can't allocate any
> order-1 pages you pointed out yourself that many other things also won't
> work, so I'm not really sure it makes a big difference if we change the
> driver?
That as an unscientific test, but when I did the NFS eats all my pages
test using ethernet, my system didn't hang like it did with iwlagn.
So while the NFS code is definitely doing something wrong when it uses
its default huge buffers, the e1000e code deals with it without hanging
my system.
So thanks for trying to improve the iwlagn code to avoid those system
lockups.
Marc
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-23 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 16:38 3.2.8/amd64 full interrupt hangs and deadlocks under big network copies (page allocation failure) Marc MERLIN
[not found] ` <20120311183244.GA14001@merlins.org>
[not found] ` <20120329053111.GD24933@merlins.org>
2012-03-29 16:41 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-03-29 18:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-29 21:19 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-09 17:20 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-09 18:12 ` David Miller
2012-04-09 18:36 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-09 18:37 ` David Miller
2012-04-09 18:58 ` Larry Finger
2012-04-09 19:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-09 19:34 ` David Miller
2012-04-09 19:46 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-10 3:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-10 5:11 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-10 6:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 5:27 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-04-11 5:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 6:30 ` [PATCH] tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 7:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 14:12 ` David Miller
2012-04-11 14:11 ` David Miller
2012-04-11 6:08 ` [PATCH] net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 14:11 ` David Miller
2012-07-15 21:59 ` 3.4.4/amd64 full interrupt hangs under big nfs copies Marc MERLIN
2012-07-16 6:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-16 15:18 ` Marc MERLIN
2012-07-16 16:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-16 17:17 ` Marc MERLIN
2013-02-19 4:05 ` 3.7.8/amd64 full interrupt hangs due to iwlwifi under big nfs copies out Marc MERLIN
2013-02-19 5:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-19 5:26 ` Marc MERLIN
2013-02-19 10:03 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-19 16:18 ` Marc MERLIN
2013-02-19 16:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-19 16:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 9:12 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 9:15 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 15:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 16:20 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 16:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 16:59 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 17:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 17:01 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 17:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 18:16 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 19:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 19:58 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 20:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-20 20:27 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-20 20:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-02-23 6:14 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2013-02-26 20:54 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-18 16:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-18 17:04 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-19 13:09 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
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