Hi, Christian.
You're, likely, using tar archive with openvswitch from openvswitch.org.
It doesn't contain many bug fixes from git/branch-2.5 unfortunately.
The problem that you are facing has been solved in branch-2.5 by
commit d9df7b9206831631ddbd90f9cbeef1b4fc5a8e89
Author: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
Date: Thu Mar 3 11:30:06 2016 +0300
netdev-dpdk: Fix memory leak in netdev_dpdk_vhost_destruct().
Fixes: 4573fbd38fa1 ("netdev-dpdk: Add vhost-user multiqueue support")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod at vmware.com>
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> I assume there is a leak somewhere on adding/removing vhost_user ports.
> Although it could also be "only" a fragmentation issue.
>
> Reproduction is easy:
> I set up a pair of nicely working OVS-DPDK connected KVM Guests.
> Then in a loop I
> - add up to more 512 ports
> - test connectivity between the two guests
> - remove up to 512 ports
>
> Depending on memory and the amount of multiqueue/rxq I use it seems to
> slightly change when exactly it breaks. But for my default setup of 4
> queues and 5G Hugepages initialized by DPDK it always breaks at the sixth
> iteration.
> Here a link to the stack trace indicating a memory shortage (TBC):
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/253916410/apport-retrace.log
>
> Known Todos:
> - I want to track it down more, and will try to come up with a non
> openvswitch based looping testcase that might show it as well to simplify
> debugging.
> - in use were Openvswitch-dpdk 2.5 and DPDK 2.2; Retest with DPDK 16.04 and
> Openvswitch master is planned.
>
> I will go on debugging this and let you know, but I wanted to give a heads
> up to everyone.
> In case this is a known issue for some of you please let me know.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd
>
> P.S. I think it is a dpdk issue, but adding Daniele on CC to represent
> ovs-dpdk as well.
