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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com,
	shreyansh.jain@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: fix virt address mempool population
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:32:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2093442.vzybzRF3xW@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515112817.2et5csjsktr7c6xu@glumotte.dev.6wind.com>

15/05/2018 13:28, Olivier Matz:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 08:58:06AM +0100, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> > On 14-May-18 7:48 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 14/05/2018 18:06, Anatoly Burakov:
> > > > Currently, populate_virt will check if mempool is already populated.
> > > > This will cause inability to reserve multi-chunk mempools if
> > > > contiguous memory is not a hard requirement, because if allocating
> > > > all-contiguous memory fails, mempool will retry with virtual addresses
> > > > and will call populate_virt. It seems that the original code never
> > > > anticipated more than one non-physically contiguous area.
> > > > 
> > > > Fix it by removing the check in populate virt. populate_anon() function
> > > > calls populate_virt() also, and it can be reasonably inferred that it is
> > > > expecting that virtual area is not already populated. Even though a
> > > > similar check is already in place there, also add the check that was
> > > > part of populate_virt() just in case.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: aab4f62d6c1c ("mempool: support no hugepage mode")
> 
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> 
> > > If it is really the root cause, you need to add Cc: stable@dpdk.org.
> > 
> > Yes. It's not as pressing for previous DPDK versions because this codepath
> > wasn't triggered unless --no-huge was used, but it's still a bug.
> 
> Agree we should queue it for stable, even if it's not that critical.

Applied, thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14 16:06 Anatoly Burakov
2018-05-14 18:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-15  7:58   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-05-15 11:28     ` Olivier Matz
2018-05-15 14:32       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-05-15 13:04 ` Andrew Rybchenko

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