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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] mempool: fix mempool virt populate with small chunks
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 15:23:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200109142351.GJ22738@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b59b3c9-ac1a-f448-e38d-063a6cb8ba7a@intel.com>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 01:52:41PM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 09-Jan-20 1:27 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> > To populate a mempool with a virtual area, the mempool code calls
> > rte_mempool_populate_iova() for each iova-contiguous area. It happens
> > (rarely) that this area is too small to store one object. In this case,
> > rte_mempool_populate_iova() returns an error, which is forwarded by
> > rte_mempool_populate_virt().
> > 
> > This case should not throw an error in
> > rte_mempool_populate_virt(). Instead, the area that is too small should
> > just be ignored.
> > 
> > To fix this issue, change the return value of
> > rte_mempool_populate_iova() to -ENOBUFS when no object can be populated,
> > so it can be ignored by the caller. As this would be an API change, add
> > a compat wrapper to keep the current API unchanged. The wrapper will be
> > removed for 20.11.
> > 
> > Fixes: 354788b60cfd ("mempool: allow populating with unaligned virtual area")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> > ---
> > 
> 
> The approach fixes the issue on my end, so
> 
> Tested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> 
> > Is there a simple way to ensure that we won't forget to remove the
> > wrapper for 20.11? Anatoly suggested me to use versioned symbols, but
> > it's not clear to me how.
> > 
> 
> Yes, i'd like to do better than "ah shur we won't forget pinky swear".
> 
> Can't we do this with ABI versioning? E.g.
> 
> rte_populate_iova_v20() ... returns EINVAL
> 
> rte_populate_iova_v21() ... returns ENOBUFS
> 
> I'm pretty sure, even if it doesn't break, it will still be more likely to
> not be forgotten because there's almost a guarantee that someone will grep
> for symbol versioning macros across the codebase around 20.11 timeframe.

Without using symbol versionning, would this be ok too?

  int
  rte_mempool_populate_iova(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *vaddr,
         rte_iova_t iova, size_t len, rte_mempool_memchunk_free_cb_t *free_cb,
         void *opaque)
  {
         int ret;

         ret = __rte_mempool_populate_iova(mp, vaddr, iova, len, free_cb, opaque);

  #if RTE_VERSION < RTE_VERSION_NUM(20, 11, 0, 0)
         if (ret == -ENOBUFS)
                 ret = -EINVAL;
  #endif

         return ret;
  }



> -- 
> Thanks,
> Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09 13:27 Olivier Matz
2020-01-09 13:40 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " David Marchand
2020-01-09 13:46   ` Olivier Matz
2020-01-09 13:52 ` [dpdk-stable] " Burakov, Anatoly
2020-01-09 14:23   ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2020-01-09 14:29     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-01-09 14:58       ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Bruce Richardson
2020-01-17 14:57 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 0/3] " Olivier Matz
2020-01-17 14:57   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/3] " Olivier Matz
2020-01-17 14:57   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/3] doc: announce API change for mempool IOVA populate Olivier Matz
2020-01-17 20:32     ` David Marchand
2020-01-17 14:57   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 3/3] [20.05] mempool: return 0 if area is too small on populate Olivier Matz
2020-01-17 20:32     ` David Marchand
2020-01-20 12:02   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] mempool: fix mempool virt populate with small chunks Thomas Monjalon

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