Re: mlx4_en_alloc_frag allocation failures

[Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:50:08PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 10:14 -0500, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> > We've got a new application that is receiving UDP multicast data using
> > AF_PACKET and writing out the packets in a custom format to disk.  The
> > packet rates are bursty, but it seems to be roughly 100 Mbps on
> > average for 1 minute periods.  With this application running all day
> > we get a lot of these messages:
> > 
> > [1298269.103034] kswapd1: page allocation failure: order:2, mode:0x4020
> > [1298269.103038] Pid: 80, comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 3.4.9-2.rgm.fc16.x86_64 #1
> > [1298269.103040] Call Trace:
> > [1298269.103041]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810db746>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf6/0x160
> > [1298269.103053]  [<ffffffff813c767d>] ? skb_copy_bits+0x16d/0x2c0
> > [1298269.103058]  [<ffffffff810e83a9>] ? wakeup_kswapd+0x69/0x160
> > [1298269.103060]  [<ffffffff810df188>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6e8/0x930
> > [1298269.103064]  [<ffffffff81114316>] alloc_pages_current+0xb6/0x120
> > [1298269.103070]  [<ffffffffa00c142b>] mlx4_en_alloc_frag+0x16b/0x1e0 [mlx4_en]
> > [1298269.103073]  [<ffffffffa00c18a0>] mlx4_en_complete_rx_desc+0x120/0x1d0 [mlx4_en]
> > [1298269.103076]  [<ffffffffa00c27d4>] mlx4_en_process_rx_cq+0x584/0x700 [mlx4_en]
> > [1298269.103079]  [<ffffffffa00c29ef>] mlx4_en_poll_rx_cq+0x3f/0x80 [mlx4_en]
> > [1298269.103083]  [<ffffffff813d6569>] net_rx_action+0x119/0x210
> > [1298269.103086]  [<ffffffff8103c690>] __do_softirq+0xb0/0x220
> > [1298269.103090]  [<ffffffff8109911d>] ? handle_irq_event+0x4d/0x70
> > [1298269.103095]  [<ffffffff8148e30c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
> > [1298269.103100]  [<ffffffff81003ef5>] do_softirq+0x55/0x90
> > [1298269.103101]  [<ffffffff8103ca65>] irq_exit+0x75/0x80
> > [1298269.103103]  [<ffffffff8148e853>] do_IRQ+0x63/0xe0
> > [1298269.103107]  [<ffffffff81485667>] common_interrupt+0x67/0x67
> > [1298269.103108]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8148523f>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xf/0x20
> > [1298269.103113]  [<ffffffff811184b1>] compaction_alloc+0x361/0x3f0
> > [1298269.103115]  [<ffffffff810e29b7>] ? pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xd7/0xf0
> > [1298269.103118]  [<ffffffff81123d19>] migrate_pages+0xa9/0x470
> > [1298269.103120]  [<ffffffff81118150>] ? perf_trace_mm_compaction_migratepages+0xd0/0xd0
> > [1298269.103122]  [<ffffffff81118abb>] compact_zone+0x4cb/0x910
> > [1298269.103124]  [<ffffffff8111904b>] __compact_pgdat+0x14b/0x190
> > [1298269.103125]  [<ffffffff8111931d>] compact_pgdat+0x2d/0x30
> > [1298269.103129]  [<ffffffff810f32b9>] ? fragmentation_index+0x19/0x70
> > [1298269.103131]  [<ffffffff810eb15f>] balance_pgdat+0x6ef/0x710
> > [1298269.103133]  [<ffffffff810eb2ca>] kswapd+0x14a/0x390
> > [1298269.103136]  [<ffffffff810567c0>] ? add_wait_queue+0x60/0x60
> > [1298269.103138]  [<ffffffff810eb180>] ? balance_pgdat+0x710/0x710
> > [1298269.103140]  [<ffffffff81055e93>] kthread+0x93/0xa0
> > [1298269.103142]  [<ffffffff8148e214>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> > [1298269.103144]  [<ffffffff81055e00>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x140/0x140
> > [1298269.103146]  [<ffffffff8148e210>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
> > 
> > The kernel is based on a Fedora 16 kernel and actually has the 3.4.10
> > patches applied.  I can easily test patches or different kernels.
> > 
> > I'm mostly wondering if there is anything that can be done about these
> > failures?  It appears that these failures have to do with handling
> > fragmented IP frames, but the majority of the packets this machines
> > should not be fragmented (there are probably some that are).
> > 
> > From a memory management point of view the system has 48GB of RAM, and
> > typically 44GB of that is page cache.  The dirty pages seem to hover
> > around 5-6MB and the filesystem/disks don't seem to have any problems
> > keeping up with writing out the data.
> 
> What is the value of /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes ?

$ cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
90112

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Shawn

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