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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be
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On 27-Sep-18 12:03 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
>> When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to
>> differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that
>> were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such
>> a property to memseg lists.
>>
>> This breaks the ABI, so bump the EAL library ABI version and
>> document the change in release notes. This also breaks a few
>> internal assumptions about memory contiguousness, so adjust
>> malloc code in a few places.
>>
>> All current calls for memseg walk functions were adjusted to
>> ignore external segments where it made sense.
>>
>> Mempools is a special case, because we may be asked to allocate
>> a mempool on a specific socket, and we need to ignore all page
>> sizes on other heaps or other sockets. Previously, this
>> assumption of knowing all page sizes was not a problem, but it
>> will be now, so we have to match socket ID with page size when
>> calculating minimum page size for a mempool.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
>> ---
>>
> 
> Specifically for bus/fslmc perspective and generically for others:
> 
> Acked-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> 
> 

Actually, this patch may need some further adjustment, since it makes 
assumption about not wanting to map external memory for DMA.

Specifically - there's an fslmc dma map function that now skips external 
memory segments. Are you sure that's how it's supposed to be?

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly