From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
Michael Santana <msantana@redhat.com>,
dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for memory tests
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 13:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8ydH1T1FkFRF1gMoFx+4-cOP+kfMLX26v+j5T_0rGWCug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8xFun1Xd7qLNZmKL-2TtxaCfPqaUmsNrSq_=06+vdXPDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:29 PM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:28 PM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
> > there is no memory left behind when exiting.
> >
> > The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
> > devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
> > management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
> > the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.
> >
> > Workaround this by disabling pci scan.
>
> Not entirely happy with this patch.
> I am open to suggestions :-)
Note: this problem won't be seen in shared builds as long as the pci
drivers for net devices are not loaded.
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-02 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 12:27 [dpdk-dev] " David Marchand
2019-08-01 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2019-08-01 13:22 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-08-01 13:24 ` David Marchand
2019-08-01 13:26 ` David Marchand
2019-08-02 11:13 ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-08-02 13:37 ` Aaron Conole
2019-08-02 13:45 ` David Marchand
2019-08-02 20:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-03 9:51 ` David Marchand
2019-08-05 10:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-08 11:23 ` David Marchand
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