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From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Jianjian Huo <j.huo@alibaba-inc.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK memory error check and offline bad pages
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:40:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0B926E-5BC4-43C4-8DD6-FCEF4B811795@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED26CBA2FAD1BF48A8719AEF02201E365134DD1E@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>



> On Nov 12, 2017, at 11:08 PM, Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jianjian,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jianjian Huo
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:13 AM
>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK memory error check and offline bad pages
>> 
>> Hi dpdk developers,
>> 
>> I have a question regarding how DPDK memory module treats memory
>> errors.
> 
> You mean hardware error which cannot be fixed by ECC?
> 
>> 
>> In Linux kernel, it has mechanism (mcelog and EDAC) to monitor the memory
>> controller and report correctable/uncorrectable memory errors. Using some
>> configurations, if memory errors exceed threshold, system can offline bad
>> memory pages and avoid applications to access/crash.
> 
> DPDK app is just one of applications. Are there any framework to notify such error to applications?
> To notify is the first thing, to recover is another thing which takes more effort.
> 
>> Do we have similar mechanism in DPDK?
> 
> No, as far as I know.


Because DPDK runs as a normal user space application in Linux then the current features in the Linux Kernel can be used correct?

> 
> Thanks,
> Jianfeng
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jianjian
>> 
> 

Regards,
Keith

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-13 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-07 21:13 Jianjian Huo
2017-11-13  5:52 ` Jianjian Huo
2017-11-13  7:08 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-13 21:40   ` Wiles, Keith [this message]
2017-11-14  0:03     ` Tan, Jianfeng

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