ACK: [ACT][PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ubuntu_kernel_selftests: Bump optmem_max for net bench tests

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Feb 3 18:37:18 UTC 2023


On 2/3/23 11:14 AM, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-kernel-tests/+bug/1960907
> 
> One of the reasons why a zerocopy send operation could fail with ENOBUF
> is when the optmem limit is reached[1]. The default value is currently
> set at 20480 which is insufficient for edge cases especially around
> benchmarking tests.
> 
> This change proposes an optmem_max increase to 2048000. It fixes for
> example "sendmesg: No buffer space available" sporadic errors in
> udpgso_bench_tx/udpgso_bench.sh
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/msg_zerocopy.html#transmission
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei.gherzan at canonical.com>
> ---
>   ubuntu_kernel_selftests/ubuntu_kernel_selftests.py | 12 ++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ubuntu_kernel_selftests/ubuntu_kernel_selftests.py b/ubuntu_kernel_selftests/ubuntu_kernel_selftests.py
> index 5d87f82e..6335abac 100644
> --- a/ubuntu_kernel_selftests/ubuntu_kernel_selftests.py
> +++ b/ubuntu_kernel_selftests/ubuntu_kernel_selftests.py
> @@ -216,8 +216,16 @@ class ubuntu_kernel_selftests(test.test):
>           if test_name.endswith('-build'):
>               os.chdir(self.srcdir)
>               if "net" in test_name:
> -                cmd = "sh -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_local'"
> -                utils.system(cmd)
> +                cmds = []
> +                cmds.append("sh -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_local'")
> +                # The net benchmarching tests (e.g. udpgso) can fail when
> +                # optmem limit is reached.
> +                # https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/msg_zerocopy.html#transmission
> +                # LP #1960907
> +                cmds.append("sh -c 'echo 2048000 > /proc/sys/net/core/optmem_max'")
> +                for cmd in cmds:
> +                    utils.system(cmd)
> +
>                   if self.kv >= 415:
>                       # net selftests use a module built by bpf selftests, bpf is available since bionic kernel
>                       if self.kv == 506:
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

Seems reasonable
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc




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