[PATCH net-next 00/15] net: page_pool: add netlink-based introspection
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-10-24 16:02:41
This is a new revision of the RFC posted in August: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230816234303.3786178-1-kuba@kernel.org/ (local) There's been a handful of fixes and tweaks but the overall architecture is unchanged. As a reminder the RFC was posted as the first step towards an API which could configure the page pools (GET API as a stepping stone for a SET API to come later). I wasn't sure whether we should commit to the GET API before the SET takes shape, hence the large delay between versions. Unfortunately, real deployment experience made this series much more urgent. We recently started to deploy newer kernels / drivers at Meta, making significant use of page pools for the first time. We immediately run into page pool leaks both real and false positive warnings. As Eric pointed out/predicted there's no guarantee that applications will read / close their sockets so a page pool page may be stuck in a socket (but not leaked) forever. This happens a lot in our fleet. Most of these are obviously due to application bugs but we should not be printing kernel warnings due to minor application resource leaks. Conversely the page pool memory may get leaked at runtime, and we have no way to detect / track that, unless someone reconfigures the NIC and destroys the page pools which leaked the pages. The solution presented here is to expose the memory use of page pools via netlink. This allows for continuous monitoring of memory used by page pools, regardless if they were destroyed or not. Sample in patch 15 can print the memory use and recycling efficiency: $ ./page-pool eth0[2] page pools: 10 (zombies: 0) refs: 41984 bytes: 171966464 (refs: 0 bytes: 0) recycling: 90.3% (alloc: 656:397681 recycle: 89652:270201) The main change compared to the RFC is that the API now exposes outstanding references and byte counts even for "live" page pools. The warning is no longer printed if page pool is accessible via netlink. Jakub Kicinski (15): net: page_pool: split the page_pool_params into fast and slow net: page_pool: avoid touching slow on the fastpath net: page_pool: factor out uninit net: page_pool: id the page pools net: page_pool: record pools per netdev net: page_pool: stash the NAPI ID for easier access eth: link netdev to page_pools in drivers net: page_pool: add nlspec for basic access to page pools net: page_pool: implement GET in the netlink API net: page_pool: add netlink notifications for state changes net: page_pool: report amount of memory held by page pools net: page_pool: report when page pool was destroyed net: page_pool: expose page pool stats via netlink net: page_pool: mute the periodic warning for visible page pools tools: ynl: add sample for getting page-pool information Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml | 161 +++++++ Documentation/networking/page_pool.rst | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 1 + .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 1 + include/linux/list.h | 20 + include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 + include/linux/poison.h | 2 + include/net/page_pool/helpers.h | 8 +- include/net/page_pool/types.h | 43 +- include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 36 ++ net/core/Makefile | 2 +- net/core/netdev-genl-gen.c | 52 +++ net/core/netdev-genl-gen.h | 11 + net/core/page_pool.c | 78 ++-- net/core/page_pool_priv.h | 12 + net/core/page_pool_user.c | 414 +++++++++++++++++ tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h | 36 ++ tools/net/ynl/generated/netdev-user.c | 419 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/net/ynl/generated/netdev-user.h | 171 +++++++ tools/net/ynl/lib/ynl.h | 2 +- tools/net/ynl/samples/.gitignore | 1 + tools/net/ynl/samples/Makefile | 2 +- tools/net/ynl/samples/page-pool.c | 147 ++++++ 24 files changed, 1586 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/core/page_pool_priv.h create mode 100644 net/core/page_pool_user.c create mode 100644 tools/net/ynl/samples/page-pool.c -- 2.41.0