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From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, matvejchikov@gmail.com, jblunck@infradead.org,
	sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: don't advertise a physical address when no hugepages
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:58:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170612135857.GB1758@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609082937.21294-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com>

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> When populating a mempool with a virtual memory area, the mempool
> library expects to be able to get the physical address of each page.
> 
> When started with --no-huge, the physical addresses may not be available
> because the pages are not locked in memory. It sometimes returns
> RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR, which makes the mempool_populate() function to fail.
> 
> This was working before the commit cdc242f260e7 ("eal/linux: support
> running as unprivileged user"), because rte_mem_virt2phy() was returning
> 0 instead of RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR, which was seen as a valid physical
> address.
> 
> Since --no-huge is a debug function that breaks the support of physical
> drivers, always set physical addresses to RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR in memzones
> or in rte_mem_virt2phy(), and ensure that mempool won't complain in that
> case.
> 
> Fixes: cdc242f260e7 ("eal/linux: support running as unprivileged user")
> 
> CC: stable@dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

Tested-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-14 10:34 [dpdk-dev] A (possible) problem with `--no-huge` option Ilya Matveychikov
2017-06-09  8:27 ` Olivier Matz
2017-06-09  8:29   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: don't advertise a physical address when no hugepages Olivier Matz
2017-06-10  8:31     ` Jan Blunck
2017-06-23  8:11       ` Olivier Matz
2017-06-23 17:08         ` Jan Blunck
2017-06-26  7:11           ` santosh
2017-06-12 13:58     ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2017-07-03 10:04     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Olivier Matz
2017-07-03 10:17       ` Jan Blunck
2017-07-04 15:53         ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2017-06-09 12:08   ` [dpdk-dev] A (possible) problem with `--no-huge` option Ilya Matveychikov

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