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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	david.marchand@redhat.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] mempool: use actual IOVA addresses when populating
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:46:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191115084643.GF4841@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <825d02ef7f7b6ab65a36d9fa4719847228537384.1573739893.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 01:58:20PM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, when mempool is being populated, we get IOVA address
> of every segment using rte_mem_virt2iova(). This works for internal
> memory, but does not really work for external memory, and does not
> work on platforms which return RTE_BAD_IOVA as a result of this
> call (such as FreeBSD). Moreover, even when it works, the function
> in question will do unnecessary pagewalks in IOVA as PA mode, as
> it falls back to rte_mem_virt2phy() instead of just doing a lookup in
> internal memseg table.
> 
> To fix it, replace the call to first attempt to look through the
> internal memseg table (this takes care of internal and external memory),
> and fall back to rte_mem_virt2iova() when unable to perform VA->IOVA
> translation via memseg table.
> 
> Fixes: 66cc45e293ed ("mem: replace memseg with memseg lists")

Shouldn't we also add
Fixes: 035ee5bea5ef ("mempool: remove optimistic IOVA-contiguous allocation")
?

From what I understand, even if the problem existed in populate_virt()
before, this is the commit that makes the problem visible in most cases.

> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-15  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-14 13:58 Anatoly Burakov
2019-11-14 13:58 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] mempool: remove check for bad IOVA " Anatoly Burakov
2019-11-15  8:48   ` Olivier Matz
2019-11-19  1:45   ` Li, WenjieX A
2019-11-15  8:46 ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2019-11-15 10:12   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] mempool: use actual IOVA addresses " Burakov, Anatoly
2019-11-19  1:45 ` Li, WenjieX A
2019-11-19 20:56 ` David Marchand

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