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SubjectRe: Kernel panic: Route cache, RCU, possibly FIB trie.
Dipankar Sarma a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:37:19PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Jesper Dangaard Brouer a écrit :
>>> There is definitly high memory pressure on this machine!
>>> Slab memory usage, range from 39Mb to 205Mb (at the moment on the
>>> production servers).
>>>
>> Did you tried 2.6.16 ?
>>
>> It contains changes in kernel/rcupdate.c so that not too many RCU elems are
>> queued (force_quiescent_state()). So in the case a rt_cache_flush is done,
>> you have the guarantee all entries are not pushed into rcu at once.
>
> Well, memory pressure or not, the oopses shouldn't be happening :)
> Perhaps we should look at them before we work around memory
> pressure through the rcu batch tuning stuff in 2.6.16 ?
>
> One of the oopses looked like the rcu callback function pointer
> getting corrupted indicating that it was double freed or
> problem with RCU itself.
>

Yep, but as this is a production server, I believe its owner might want a fast
way to have it back to life :)

And the RCU change in 2.6.16 is definitly a big improvement when a dump of
million entries is done :)

If RCU quiescent state is forced, maybe the bug (in the route cache code) will
trigger faster ?

Eric
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