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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@6wind.com,
	sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: make hugetlb initialization more robust
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 18:40:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1671292.hQI6ccxuUZ@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463013881-27985-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com>

2016-05-12 00:44, Jianfeng Tan:
> This patch adds an option, --huge-trybest, to use a recover mechanism to
> the case that there are not so many hugepages (declared in sysfs), which
> can be used. It relys on a mem access to fault-in hugepages, and if fails

relys -> relies

> with SIGBUS, recover to previously saved stack environment with
> siglongjmp().
> 
> Besides, this solution fixes an issue when hugetlbfs is specified with an
> option of size. Currently DPDK does not respect the quota of a hugetblfs
> mount. It fails to init the EAL because it tries to map the number of free
> hugepages in the system rather than using the number specified in the quota
> for that mount.

It looks to be a bug. Why adding an option?
What is the benefit of the old behaviour, not using --try-best?

> +static sigjmp_buf jmpenv;
> +
> +static void sigbus_handler(int signo __rte_unused)
> +{
> +	siglongjmp(jmpenv, 1);
> +}
> +
> +/* Put setjmp into a wrap method to avoid compiling error. Any non-volatile,
> + * non-static local variable in the stack frame calling sigsetjmp might be
> + * clobbered by a call to longjmp.
> + */
> +static int wrap_sigsetjmp(void)
> +{
> +	return sigsetjmp(jmpenv, 1);
> +}

Please add the word "huge" to these variables and functions.

> +static struct sigaction action_old;
> +static int need_recover;
> +
> +static void
> +register_sigbus(void)
> +{
> +	sigset_t mask;
> +	struct sigaction action;
> +
> +	sigemptyset(&mask);
> +	sigaddset(&mask, SIGBUS);
> +	action.sa_flags = 0;
> +	action.sa_mask = mask;
> +	action.sa_handler = sigbus_handler;
> +
> +	need_recover = !sigaction(SIGBUS, &action, &action_old);
> +}
> +
> +static void
> +recover_sigbus(void)
> +{
> +	if (need_recover) {
> +		sigaction(SIGBUS, &action_old, NULL);
> +		need_recover = 0;
> +	}
> +}

Idem, Please add the word "huge".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-24 18:49 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: add cgroup-aware resource self discovery Jianfeng Tan
2016-01-25 13:46 ` Neil Horman
2016-01-26  2:22   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-26 14:19     ` Neil Horman
2016-01-27 12:02       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-27 17:30         ` Neil Horman
2016-01-29 11:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: make resource initialization more robust Jianfeng Tan
2016-02-01 18:08   ` Neil Horman
2016-02-22  6:08   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-02-22 13:18     ` Neil Horman
2016-02-28 21:12   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-29  1:50     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 10:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add option --avail-cores to detect lcores Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08  8:54   ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-08 17:38     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 13:05       ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-09 13:53         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 14:01           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 14:17             ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 14:44               ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 14:55                 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 15:17                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 17:45                     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 19:33                       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-10  1:36                         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-18 12:46         ` David Marchand
2016-05-19  2:25           ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-06-30 13:43             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-01  0:52               ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-04-26 12:39   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 10:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: make hugetlb initialization more robust Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08  1:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08  8:46     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-04 11:07     ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-04 11:28       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-04 12:25     ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-09 10:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-05-10  8:54     ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-10  9:11       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-12  0:44   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-05-17 16:39     ` David Marchand
2016-05-18  7:56       ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-18  9:34         ` David Marchand
2016-05-19  2:00       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-17 16:40     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-05-18  8:06       ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-18  9:38         ` David Marchand
2016-05-19  2:11         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-31  3:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] eal: fix allocating all free hugepages Jianfeng Tan
2016-06-06  2:49   ` Pei, Yulong
2016-06-08 11:27   ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-06-30 13:34     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-31  3:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: restrict cores detection Jianfeng Tan
2016-08-31 15:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-01  1:15     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-09-01  1:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-09-02 16:53   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-16 14:04     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-16 14:02   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-02 17:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: restrict cores auto detection Jianfeng Tan
2016-12-08 18:19     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-09 15:14       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-21 14:31         ` Thomas Monjalon

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