Hi Bruce, The issue seems to be triggered by a combination of using the CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MEMPOOL_DEBUG option and contention in the mempool(small mempool size).
I disabled that and the header panics went away. Thank you for your help! --Kam On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com > wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:28:18PM -0500, Kamraan Nasim wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have been hitting this issue fairly consistently for the ixgbe driver > > > > MEMPOOL: obj=0x7ffeed1f5d00, mempool=0x7ffeecb69bc0, > cookie=badbadbadadd2e55 > > PANIC in __mempool_check_cookies(): > > MEMPOOL: bad header cookie (get) > > > > It seems to be a corruption in the mempool bound to my ixgbe port. What I > > have observed is that this ONLY happens if I initialize dpdk(i.e. start > > dpdk application) AFTER traffic is already flowing in through the port. > If > > I initialize dpdk and bind BEFORE I start traffic then things seem to > work > > fine. > > > > Any clues on why this might be happening? > > > > A bit stumped, so would really appreciate all the help I can get on this > > one. > > > > Hi. > Can you confirm if your application works ok with the mempool debug options > disabled? The mempool debug options are not often used because they slow > things > down so it's possible the bug could be in the cookie checking itself. > > /Bruce > > > Thanks, > > Kam > > > > > > (bt for your reference) > > > > #2 0x0000000000408cc6 in __rte_panic (funcname=0x571100 > > "__mempool_check_cookies", format= > > 0x568fb0 "MEMPOOL: bad header cookie (get)\n%.0s") > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_debug.c:83 > > #3 0x00000000004af027 in __mempool_check_cookies (rxq=<value optimized > > out>) > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mempool.h:357 > > #4 rte_mempool_get_bulk (rxq=<value optimized out>) > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mempool.h:1094 > > #5 ixgbe_rx_alloc_bufs (rxq=<value optimized out>) > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c:997 > > #6 0x00000000004afce9 in rx_recv_pkts (rx_queue=0x7ffeec8edbc0, > > rx_pkts=0x900410, > > nb_pkts=<value optimized out>) > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c:1074 > > #7 ixgbe_recv_pkts_bulk_alloc (rx_queue=0x7ffeec8edbc0, > rx_pkts=0x900410, > > nb_pkts=<value optimized out>) > > at > > > /b/knasim/bandwagon/sbn/src/share/dpdk/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c:1124 > > #8 0x0000000000520d36 in rte_eth_rx_burst (lp=0x900340, n_workers=14, > > bsz_rd=<value optimized out>, bsz_wr= > > 144, pos_lb=0 '\000') at /usr/lib/dpdk/include/rte_ethdev.h:2368 >
