Networking troubleshooting grid

Some typical issues related to the Networking feature are listed below. Solutions or debugging methods are proposed for these issues.

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Symptom Resolution
 
swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x480020(GFP_ATOMIC)
[...]
[43154.580149] stm32-dwmac 5800a000.ethernet: fail to alloc skb entry 430
[...]
[<c0232144>] (warn_alloc) from [<c02332f4>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1018/0x144c)
[<c02332f4>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask) from [<c02803e4>] (new_slab+0x4f0/0x5c0)
[...]
[<c0282e94>] (kmem_cache_alloc) from [<c0844cac>] (__build_skb+0x28/0x98)
[<c0844cac>] (__build_skb) from [<c0844e6c>] (__netdev_alloc_skb+0xe8/0x138)
[<c0844e6c>] (__netdev_alloc_skb) from [<c06ad700>] (stmmac_rx+0x698/0xb90)

When the DDR is widely used, this issue could occurs if atomic allocation area is in contension. The solution would be to increase "vm.min_free_kbytes" but take care of not increasing too much this area to avoid OOM. Recommendation is min_free_kbytes = 5% of DDR size / <nr_cpus>