Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 8/8] mempool: notify memory area to pool

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:00:42PM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> HW pool manager e.g. Octeontx SoC demands s/w to program start and end
> address of pool. Currently, there is no such api in external mempool.
> Introducing rte_mempool_ops_register_memory_area api which will let HW(pool
> manager) to know when common layer selects hugepage:
> For each hugepage - Notify its start/end address to HW pool manager.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
>
> [...]
>
> +/**
> + * @internal wrapper for mempool_ops register_memory_area callback.
> + * API to notify the mempool handler if a new memory area is added to pool.
> + *

if -> when

> + * Mempool handler usually get notified once for the case of mempool get full
> + * range of memory area. However, if several memory areas exist then mempool
> + * handler gets notified each time.

Not sure I understand this last paragraph.

> + *
> + * @param mp
> + *   Pointer to the memory pool.
> + * @param vaddr
> + *   Pointer to the buffer virtual address
> + * @param paddr
> + *   Pointer to the buffer physical address
> + * @param len
> + *   Pool size

Minor: missing dot at the end

> + * @return
> + *  - 0: Success;
> + *  - ENOTSUP: doesn't support register_memory_area ops (valid error case).

Missing minus before ENOTSUP.
The dot should be a semicolon instead.