Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] acl: If build does not support sse4.2, emulate missing instructions with C code

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

> > For ACL there is a simple UT, that could be run as:
> > ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/test ...
> > RTE>>acl_autotest
> > It takes just few seconds to run.
> 
> It doesn't seem to work properly, at least not on any of my systems.  With a
> system allocation 100 pages to hugepage memory:
> 
> [root@hmsreliant app]# ./test -c 0x3 -n 2
> EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 1 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 2 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 3 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 0 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 1 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 2 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
> EAL: Support maximum 64 logical core(s) by configuration.
> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> EAL:   cannot open VFIO container, error 2 (No such file or directory)
> EAL: VFIO support could not be initialized
> EAL: Setting up memory...
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef07000000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef06c00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef06600000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef06200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef05e00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef05600000 (size = 0x600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef04e00000 (size = 0x600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef04400000 (size = 0x800000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef03e00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0xa00000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef03200000 (size = 0xa00000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef02c00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef02600000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1800000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fef00c00000 (size = 0x1800000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feeff800000 (size = 0x1200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x2600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feefd000000 (size = 0x2600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0xc00000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feefc200000 (size = 0xc00000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x2200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef9e00000 (size = 0x2200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef9a00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef9600000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef9200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef8e00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef8a00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef8600000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef8200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7feef7a00000 (size = 0x600000)
> EAL: Requesting 100 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
> EAL: TSC frequency is ~3392297 KHz
> EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=73cf880)
> EAL: Core 1 is ready (tid=f71fe700)
> APP: HPET is not enabled, using TSC as default timer
> RTE>>acl_autotest
> ACL: allocation of 25166720 bytes on socket 9 for ACL_acl_ctx failed
> 
> This hangs forever (well, at least 30 minutes, but thats sufficiently
> close to forever for me to wait).
> 

Ok that's unusual.
Never seen before.
I suppose that happens with unmodified dpdk 1.7?
I do run acl_autotest with at least 256M of huge-pages as ACL is quite memory consuming  and, as I remember, requires at least 2X32M areas of contiguous hugepages.
But in that case (not enough hugepages) it should just fail with something like:
ACL: allocation of 25953152 bytes on socket -1 for ACL_acl_ctx failed
Any other details, so I can try to reproduce it:
arch you build/run it on?
amount of free memory in the system?
Wonder what pstack says?

Thanks
Konstantin