Re: [GIT PULL v2] Networking for 6.7

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Thu Nov 09 2023 - 11:01:57 EST


On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:49 AM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 02:09:48PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > bpf: Add support for non-fix-size percpu mem allocation
>
> Recent changes in BPF increased per-CPU memory consumption a lot.
>
> On virtual machine with 288 CPUs, per-CPU consumtion increased from 111 MB
> to 969 MB, or 8.7x.
>
> I've bisected it to the commit 41a5db8d8161 ("bpf: Add support for
> non-fix-size percpu mem allocation"), which part of the pull request.

Hmm. This is unexpected. Thank you for reporting.

How did you measure this 111 MB vs 969 MB ?
Pls share the steps to reproduce.

Yonghong, Hou,

please take a look as well.