Hello Coiby,
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:40 PM Coiby Xu <coxu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> i40iw consumes huge amounts of memory. For example, on a x86_64 machine,
> i40iw consumed 1.5GB for Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for
> for 1GbE while "craskernel=auto" only reserved 160M. With the module
> parameter "resource_profile=2", we can reduce the memory usage of i40iw
> to ~300M which is still too much for kdump.
>
> Disabling the client registration would spare us the client interface
> operation open , i.e., i40iw_open for iwarp/uda device. Thus memory is
> saved for kdump.
>
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
> index a2dba32383f6..aafc2587f389 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> #include <linux/list.h>
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/net/intel/i40e_client.h>
> +#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
>
> #include "i40e.h"
> #include "i40e_prototype.h"
> @@ -741,6 +742,12 @@ int i40e_register_client(struct i40e_client *client)
> {
> int ret = 0;
>
> + /* Don't open i40iw client for kdump because i40iw will consume huge
> + * amounts of memory.
> + */
> + if (is_kdump_kernel())
> + return ret;
> +
Since crashkernel size can be manually set on the command line by a
user, and some users might be fine with a ~300M memory usage by i40iw
client [with resource_profile=2"], in my view, disabling the client
for all kdump cases seems too restrictive.
We can probably check the crash kernel size allocated (
$ cat /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size) and then make a decision
accordingly, so for example something like:
+ if (is_kdump_kernel() && kexec_crash_size < 512M)
+ return ret;
What do you think?
Regards,
Bhupesh
> if (!client) {
> ret = -EIO;
> goto out;
> --
> 2.30.1
>
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