Hello We are still facing the memory issue with Intel 810 NICs (even on latest 6.15.y).
Our current stabilization and solution is to move everything to a new INTEL-FREE server and get rid of last Intel sights there (after Intel's CPU vulnerabilities fuckups NICs are next step). Any help welcomed, Jaroslav P. st 4. 6. 2025 v 10:42 odesílatel Jaroslav Pulchart < [email protected]> napsal: > > > > čt 17. 4. 2025 v 19:52 odesílatel Keller, Jacob E > > <[email protected]> napsal: > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 5:13 PM > > > > To: Keller, Jacob E <[email protected]> > > > > Cc: Jaroslav Pulchart <[email protected]>; Kitszel, > Przemyslaw > > > > <[email protected]>; Damato, Joe <[email protected]>; > intel-wired- > > > > [email protected]; [email protected]; Nguyen, Anthony L > > > > <[email protected]>; Igor Raits <[email protected]>; > Daniel Secik > > > > <[email protected]>; Zdenek Pesek <[email protected] > >; > > > > Dumazet, Eric <[email protected]>; Martin Karsten > > > > <[email protected]>; Zaki, Ahmed <[email protected]>; > Czapnik, > > > > Lukasz <[email protected]>; Michal Swiatkowski > > > > <[email protected]> > > > > Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] Increased memory usage on NUMA nodes > with ICE > > > > driver after upgrade to 6.13.y (regression in commit 492a044508ad) > > > > > > > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:57:10 +0000 Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > > > > > > And you're reverting just and exactly 492a044508ad13 ? > > > > > > > The memory for persistent config is allocated in > alloc_netdev_mqs() > > > > > > > unconditionally. I'm lost as to how this commit could make any > > > > > > > difference :( > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, reverted the 492a044508ad13. > > > > > > > > > > Struct napi_config *is* 1056 bytes > > > > > > > > You're probably looking at 6.15-rcX kernels. Yes, the affinity mask > > > > can be large depending on the kernel config. But report is for 6.13, > > > > AFAIU. In 6.13 and 6.14 napi_config was tiny. > > > > > > Regardless, it should still be ~64KB even in that case which is a far > cry from eating all available memory. Something else must be going on.... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Jake > > > > Hello > > > > Some observation, this "problem" still exists with the latest 6.14.y > > and there must be multiple issues, the memory utilization is slowly > > going down, from 3GB to 100MB in 10-20days. at home NUMA nodes where > > intel x810 NIC are (looks like some memory leak related to > > networking). > > > > So without the revert the kawadX usage is observed asap like till > > 1-2d, with revert of mentioned commit kswadX starts to consume > > resources later like in ~10d-20d later. It is almost impossible to use > > servers with Intel X810 cards (ice driver) with recent linux kernels. > > > > Were you able to reproduce the memory problems in your testbed? > > > > Best, > > Jaroslav > > Hello > > I deployed linux 6.15.0 to our servers 7d ago and observed the > behaviour of memory utilization of NUMA home nodes of Intel X810 > 1/ there is no need to revert the commit as before, > 2/ the memory is continuously consumed (like memory leak), > see attached "7d_memory_usage_per_numa_linux6.15.0.png" screenshot 8x > numa nodes, (NUMA0 + NUMA1 are local for X810 nics). BTW: We do not > see this memory utilization pattern on server s using Broadcom > Netxtreme-E NICs > -- Jaroslav Pulchart Sr. Principal SW Engineer GoodData
