On 05/29/2012 02:37 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The tx pending queues doesn't seem to be limitted, allowing
run-away memory usage when something like pktgen is
sending packets faster than the system can actually
send them.
[root@ct520-2011 ~]# cat /debug/ieee80211/wiphy0/queues
00: 0x00000000/0
01: 0x00000000/0
02: 0x00000001/40076
03: 0x00000000/0
[root@ct520-2011 ~]# cat /debug/ieee80211/wiphy0/queues
00: 0x00000000/0
01: 0x00000000/0
02: 0x00000001/52649
03: 0x00000000/0
[root@ct520-2011 ~]# cat /debug/ieee80211/wiphy0/queues
00: 0x00000000/0
01: 0x00000000/0
02: 0x00000001/107939
03: 0x00000000/0
I think this is what is causing my OOM issues when sending
with (my hacked version of) pktgen.
Shouldn't there be an upper limit on the number of pending frames
that mac80211 will queue?
something bql-like would help a lot.
Might help more righteous protocols, but I'm not sure it will help
with pktgen. I'm working on an upper limit implemented as a module
parameter. Hopefully that will at least keep the system from
going OOM.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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