From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
To: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>
Cc: brouer@redhat.com,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
Rana Shahout <rana.shahot@gmail.com>,
Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Subject: XDP_TX bug report on mlx4
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:03:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916210340.4a7cdef8@redhat.com> (raw)
Hi Brenden,
I've discovered a bug with XDP_TX recycling of pages in the mlx4 driver.
If I increase the number of RX and TX queues/channels via ethtool cmd:
ethtool -L mlx4p1 rx 10 tx 10
Then when running the xdp2 program, which does XDP_TX, the kernel will
crash with page errors, because the page refcnt goes to zero or even
minus. I've noticed pages delivered to mlx4_en_rx_recycle() can have
a page refcnt of zero, which is wrong, they should always have 1 (for
XDP).
Debugging it further, I find that this can happen when mlx4_en_rx_recycle()
is called from mlx4_en_recycle_tx_desc(). This is the TX cleanup function,
associated with TX ring queues used for XDP_TX only. No others than the
XDP_TX action should be able to place packets into these TX rings
which call mlx4_en_recycle_tx_desc().
Do you have any idea of what could be going wrong in this case?
--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-16 19:03 Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2016-09-16 19:17 ` XDP_TX bug report on mlx4 Brenden Blanco
2016-09-16 19:24 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-09-18 23:59 ` Brenden Blanco
2016-10-13 19:46 ` Brenden Blanco
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