Bug ID 1099685: Prevent crash due to lack of queue buffers

Last Modified: Dec 12, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6

Opened: Apr 15, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

TMM fails to start up due to lack of buffers to allocate to receive (RX) queues

Impact

TMM fails to start up and gets stuck in a restart loop

Conditions

-- Using Xnet and DPDK drivers -- The product sum of (# of TMMs) * (# of interfaces) * (RX queue size) exceeds 65535. Ex: 16 TMMs * 2 interfaces * queue size of 2048 = 65536 8 TMMs * 4 interfaces * queue size of 2048 = 65536 8 TMMs * 2 interfaces * queue size of 4096 = 65536

Workaround

Decrease one of the following so the product sum goes below 65535 - # of TMMs - # of interfaces - RX queue size

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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