RE: [PATCH] net/iavf:fix slow memory allocation

["You, KaisenX" <kaisenx.you@intel.com>]

Can you please help to review? thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: You, KaisenX <kaisenx.you@intel.com>
> Sent: 2022年11月17日 14:57
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang@intel.com>; Zhou, YidingX
> <yidingx.zhou@intel.com>; You, KaisenX <kaisenx.you@intel.com>; Wu,
> Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Zhang,
> Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/iavf:fix slow memory allocation
> 
> In some cases, the DPDK does not allocate hugepage heap memory to some
> sockets due to the user setting parameters (e.g. -l 40-79, SOCKET 0 has no
> memory).
> When the interrupt thread runs on the corresponding core of this socket,
> each allocation/release will execute a whole set of heap allocation/release
> operations,resulting in poor performance.
> Instead we call malloc() to get memory from the system's heap space to fix
> this problem.
> 
> Fixes: cb5c1b91f76f ("net/iavf: add thread for event callbacks")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kaisen You <kaisenx.you@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c | 8 +++-----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c index
> f92daf97f2..a05791fe48 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ struct iavf_event_element {
>  	struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
>  	enum rte_eth_event_type event;
>  	void *param;
> -	size_t param_alloc_size;
>  	uint8_t param_alloc_data[0];
>  };
> 
> @@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ iavf_dev_event_handle(void *param __rte_unused)
>  		TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(pos, &pending, next, save_next) {
>  			TAILQ_REMOVE(&pending, pos, next);
>  			rte_eth_dev_callback_process(pos->dev, pos-
> >event, pos->param);
> -			rte_free(pos);
> +			free(pos);
>  		}
>  	}
> 
> @@ -94,14 +93,13 @@ iavf_dev_event_post(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,  {
>  	struct iavf_event_handler *handler = &event_handler;
>  	char notify_byte;
> -	struct iavf_event_element *elem = rte_malloc(NULL, sizeof(*elem)
> + param_alloc_size, 0);
> +	struct iavf_event_element *elem = malloc(sizeof(*elem) +
> +param_alloc_size);
>  	if (!elem)
>  		return;
> 
>  	elem->dev = dev;
>  	elem->event = event;
>  	elem->param = param;
> -	elem->param_alloc_size = param_alloc_size;
>  	if (param && param_alloc_size) {
>  		rte_memcpy(elem->param_alloc_data, param,
> param_alloc_size);
>  		elem->param = elem->param_alloc_data; @@ -165,7 +163,7
> @@ iavf_dev_event_handler_fini(void)
>  	struct iavf_event_element *pos, *save_next;
>  	TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(pos, &handler->pending, next, save_next) {
>  		TAILQ_REMOVE(&handler->pending, pos, next);
> -		rte_free(pos);
> +		free(pos);
>  	}
>  }
> 
> --
> 2.34.1