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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: <eagostini@nvidia.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] gpu/cuda: mem alloc aligned memory
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:05:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220103100520.66677c3f@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220104014721.1799-4-eagostini@nvidia.com>

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 01:47:21 +0000
<eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:

>  static int
> -cuda_mem_alloc(struct rte_gpu *dev, size_t size, void **ptr)
> +cuda_mem_alloc(struct rte_gpu *dev, size_t size, void **ptr, unsigned int align)
>  {
>  	CUresult res;
>  	const char *err_string;
> @@ -610,8 +612,10 @@ cuda_mem_alloc(struct rte_gpu *dev, size_t size, void **ptr)
>  
>  	/* Allocate memory */
>  	mem_alloc_list_tail->size = size;
> -	res = pfn_cuMemAlloc(&(mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_d),
> -			mem_alloc_list_tail->size);
> +	mem_alloc_list_tail->size_orig = size + align;
> +
> +	res = pfn_cuMemAlloc(&(mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_orig_d),
> +			mem_alloc_list_tail->size_orig);
>  	if (res != 0) {
>  		pfn_cuGetErrorString(res, &(err_string));
>  		rte_cuda_log(ERR, "cuCtxSetCurrent current failed with %s",
> @@ -620,6 +624,13 @@ cuda_mem_alloc(struct rte_gpu *dev, size_t size, void **ptr)
>  		return -rte_errno;
>  	}
>  
> +
> +	/* Align memory address */
> +	mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_d = mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_orig_d;
> +	if (align && ((uintptr_t)mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_d) % align)
> +		mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_d += (align -
> +				(((uintptr_t)mem_alloc_list_tail->ptr_d) % align));


Posix memalign takes size_t for both size and alignment.

Better to put the input parameters first, and then the resulting output parameter last
for consistency; follows the Rusty API design manifesto.

Alignment only makes sense if power of two. The code should check that and optimize
for that.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-04  1:47 [PATCH v1 0/3] GPU memory aligned eagostini
2022-01-04  1:47 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] gpudev: mem alloc aligned memory eagostini
2022-01-04  1:47 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] app/test-gpudev: test aligned memory allocation eagostini
2022-01-04  1:47 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] gpu/cuda: mem alloc aligned memory eagostini
2022-01-03 18:05   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-01-03 18:15     ` Elena Agostini
2022-01-03 18:17       ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-01-03 18:22         ` Elena Agostini
2022-01-08  0:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] gpudev: " eagostini
2022-01-08  0:20   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] app/test-gpudev: test aligned memory allocation eagostini
2022-01-08  0:20   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] gpu/cuda: mem alloc aligned memory eagostini
2022-01-21 10:34   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] gpudev: " Thomas Monjalon

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