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From: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
To: Martin Weiser <martin.weiser@allegro-packets.com>
Cc: "Adrien Mazarguil" <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
	"Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Ferruh Yigit" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Mellanox ConnectX-5 crashes and mbuf leak
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:28:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7DB3162E-9A29-4668-BCB3-693CCB4D772A@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6edec2d-5626-04c1-38df-2f8626236e1a@allegro-packets.com>

Glad to hear that helped!
Then the patch will get merged soon.

Thanks,
Yongseok

> On Oct 10, 2017, at 1:10 AM, Martin Weiser <martin.weiser@allegro-packets.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Yongseok,
> 
> I can confirm that this patch fixes the crashes and freezing in my tests
> so far.
> 
> We still see an issue that once the mbufs run low and reference counts
> are used as well as freeing of mbufs in processing lcores happens we
> suddenly lose a large amount of mbufs that will never return to the
> pool. But I can also reproduce this with ixgbe so this is not specific
> to the mlx5 driver but rather an issue of the current dpdk-net-next
> state. I will write up a separate mail with details how to reproduce this.
> 
> Thank you for your support!
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 08.10.17 00:19, Yongseok Koh wrote:
>>> On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, Martin
>>> 
>>> Even though I had done quite serious tests before sending out the patch,
>>> I figured out deadlock could happen if the Rx queue size is smaller. It is 128
>>> by default in testpmd while I usually use 256.
>>> 
>>> I've fixed the bug and submitted a new patch [1], which actually reverts the
>>> previous patch. So, you can apply the attached with disregarding the old one.
>>> 
>>> And I have also done extensive tests for this new patch but please let me know
>>> your test results.
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> "net/mlx5: fix deadlock due to buffered slots in Rx SW ring"
>>> at https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpdk.org%2Fdev%2Fpatchwork%2Fpatch%2F29847&data=02%7C01%7Cyskoh%40mellanox.com%7Cd026493e00eb429cb6b608d50fb673ed%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636432198675778556&sdata=YOZQFrSeIM%2BFw42CvqazNDYSv98jKB%2F2bMRSqrYo2a8%3D&reserved=0
>> Hi Martin
>> 
>> I've submitted v2 of the patch [1]. I just replaced vector insns with regular
>> statements.  This is just for ease of maintenance because I'm about to add
>> vectorized PMD for ARM NEON.  In terms of functionality and performance it is
>> identical.
>> 
>> Please proceed your testing with this and let me know the result.
>> 
>> [1]
>> [dpdk-dev,v2] net/mlx5: fix deadlock due to buffered slots in Rx SW ring
>> , which is at https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpdk.org%2Fdev%2Fpatchwork%2Fpatch%2F29879%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cyskoh%40mellanox.com%7Cd026493e00eb429cb6b608d50fb673ed%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636432198675778556&sdata=IrrEKKLWYRarrbE2McSzytYaQ4zdh1nAnsWErgijd%2Fg%3D&reserved=0
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Yongseok

      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-10 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-26  9:23 Martin Weiser
2017-09-26 10:32 ` Olga Shern
2017-10-05 21:46 ` Yongseok Koh
2017-10-06 14:10   ` Martin Weiser
2017-10-06 22:31     ` Yongseok Koh
2017-10-07 22:19       ` Yongseok Koh
2017-10-10  8:10         ` Martin Weiser
2017-10-10 14:28           ` Yongseok Koh [this message]

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