Re: 2.6.35-rc2, CONFIG_RPS is filling the dmesg log

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 09:22 -0600, Tim Gardner a écrit :
> On 06/09/2010 07:42 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 07:27 -0600, Tim Gardner a écrit :
> >> On 06/08/2010 02:55 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> >>> With 2.6.35-rc2 my dmesg log is being flooded with messages like this:
> >>>
> >>> br0 received packet on queue 4, but number of RX queues is 1
> >>>
> >>> This machine is bridged for KVM and has 2 igb network adapters.
> >>>
> >>> The root cause appears to be CONFIG_RPS=y and the fact that none of the
> >>> drivers that call skb_record_rx_queue() perform their net device
> >>> allocation using alloc_netdev_mq(), thereby initializing num_rx_queues
> >>> to a maximum of 1.
> >>>
> >>> Given that this is early RPS days, is the warning in get_rps_cpu()
> >>> really necessary? It would appear that _all_ of the multi-receive queue
> >>> devices that call skb_record_rx_queue() will cause this log noise.
> >>>
> >>> By the way, how do you turn off CONFIG_RPS? The only way I could get it
> >>> disabled was to change the default in net/Kconfig to 'n'.
> >>>
> >>> rtg
> >>
> >> This is the route that I'm taking with Ubuntu in the short term. I'll
> >> have lots of server testers complaining pretty soon if I don't take care
> >> of this now. It does keep my server logs from filling.
> >>
> >> rtg
> >>
> >
> > Probably fine, but your commit message is not exact :
> >
> >    So far no users of skb_record_rx_queue() use alloc_netdev_mq() for
> >    network device initialization, so don't print a warning about num_rx_queues
> >    imbalances in get_rps_cpu() unless they have actually been allocated.
> >
> > In fact, drivers that use skb_record_rx_queue() did use alloc_netdev_mq().
> >
> > Problem is : packets going thru bridge/bonding that are not yet
> > multiqueue enabled. If R[PF]S enabled for these "virtual devices",
> > we trigger the get_rps_cpu() warning.
> >
> > Also, in a bonding setup, we still have a problem
> > because all tx packets will go thru tx queue 0 (dev_pick_tx() job)
> >
> > (That might be good to know that for Ubuntu server testers)
> >
> 
> How about this?
> 

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Thanks !