Re: [GIT PULL v2] Networking for 6.7

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Nov 09 2023 - 11:14:12 EST


On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 08:01:39AM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 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.

Boot VMM with 288 (qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 288) and check Percpu: field of
/proc/meminfo.

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