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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Cc: Slawomir Mrozowicz <slawomirx.mrozowicz@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@6wind.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] eal: out-of-bounds write
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:09:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5727542.OiCZAjWWDW@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5fc0e16-95c2-70b6-9aee-5232d85e4c5e@intel.com>

2016-06-20 10:38, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
> On 20/06/2016 10:14, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> >> +			"All memory segments exhausted by IVSHMEM. "
> > There is no evidence that it is related to IVSHMEM.
> > "Not enough memory segments." would be more appropriate.
> 
> Actually we would hit this issue when all memsegs have been used by IVSHMEM.
> So I think the message is accurate.

I think it's saner to avoid mixing "potential root cause of a use case" and
"accurate description of the error".
One day, the root cause could be different and the message will become wrong.
Here there is not enough memory segment.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 14:52 Slawomir Mrozowicz
2016-06-20  9:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-20  9:38   ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-06-20 10:09     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-06-20 11:29       ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-07-21 12:01         ` Mrozowicz, SlawomirX
2016-07-21 12:54           ` Thomas Monjalon

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