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SubjectRe: [PATCH] igb: don't reuse pages with pfmemalloc flag
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On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 17:50 +0400, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Incoming packet is dropped silently by sk_filter(), if the skb was
> allocated from pfmemalloc reserves and the corresponding socket is
> not marked with the SOCK_MEMALLOC flag.
>
> Igb driver allocates pages for DMA with __skb_alloc_page(), which
> calls alloc_pages_node() with the __GFP_MEMALLOC flag. So, in case
> of OOM condition, igb can get pages with pfmemalloc flag set.
>
> If an incoming packet hits the pfmemalloc page and is large enough
> (small packets are copying into the memory, allocated with
> netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(), so they are not affected), it will be
> dropped.
>
> This behavior is ok under high memory pressure, but the problem is
> that the igb driver reuses these mapped pages. So, packets are still
> dropping even if all memory issues are gone and there is a plenty
> of free memory.
>
> In my case, some TCP sessions hang on a small percentage (< 0.1%)
> of machines days after OOMs.
>
> Fix this by avoiding reuse of such pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks Roman, I have added you patch to my queue.
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