[dpdk-dev] Kernel panic in KNI

2016-04-07 Thread Matt Laswell
Hey Robert, Thanks for the insight. I work with Jay on the code he's asking about; we only have one mbuf pool that we use for all packets. Mostly, this is for the reasons that you describe, as well as for the sake of simplicity. As it happens, the stack trace we're seeing makes it look as thoug

[dpdk-dev] Kernel panic in KNI

2016-04-06 Thread Sanford, Robert
Hi Jay, I won't try to interpret your kernel stack trace. But, I'll tell you about a KNI-related problem that we once experienced, and the symptom was a kernel hang. The problem was that we were passing mbufs allocated out of one mempool, to a KNI context that we had set up with a different mempo

[dpdk-dev] Kernel panic in KNI

2016-04-06 Thread Jay Rolette
I had a system lockup hard a couple of days ago and all we were able to get was a photo of the LCD monitor with most of the kernel panic on it. No way to scroll back the buffer and nothing in the logs after we rebooted. Not surprising with a kernel panic due to an exception during interrupt process