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From: "Eelco Chaudron" <echaudro@redhat.com>
To: "Alejandro Lucero" <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 17.11] mem: fix memory initialization time
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:26:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <618249C0-F8A9-48D4-9A8A-0703029A47F7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112111819.25087-1-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>



On 12 Nov 2018, at 12:18, Alejandro Lucero wrote:

> When using large amount of hugepage based memory, doing all the
> hugepages mapping can take quite significant time.
>
> The problem is hugepages being initially mmaped to virtual addresses
> which will be tried later for the final hugepage mmaping. This causes
> the final mapping requiring calling mmap with another hint address 
> which
> can happen several times, depending on the amount of memory to mmap, 
> and
> which each mmmap taking more than a second.
>
> This patch changes the hint for the initial hugepage mmaping using
> a starting address which will not collide with the final mmaping.
>
> Fixes: 293c0c4b957f ("mem: use address hint for mapping hugepages")
>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>

Thanks Alejandro for sending the patch. This issue was found in an 
OVS-DPDK environment.
I verified/tested the patch.

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c 
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index bac969a12..0675809b7 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -421,6 +421,21 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file 
> *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi,
>  	}
>  #endif
>
> +#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
> +	/*
> +	 * Hugepages are first mmaped individually and then re-mmapped to
> +	 * another region for having contiguous physical pages in contiguous
> +	 * virtual addresses. Setting here vma_addr for the first hugepage
> +	 * mapped to a virtual address which will not collide with the 
> second
> +	 * mmaping later. The next hugepages will use increments of this
> +	 * initial address.
> +	 *
> +	 * The final virtual address will be based on baseaddr which is
> +	 * 0x100000000. We use a hint here starting at 0x200000000, leaving
> +	 * another 4GB just in case, plus the total available hugepages 
> memory.
> +	 */
> +	vma_addr = (char *)0x200000000 + (hpi->hugepage_sz * 
> hpi->num_pages[0]);
> +#endif
>  	for (i = 0; i < hpi->num_pages[0]; i++) {
>  		uint64_t hugepage_sz = hpi->hugepage_sz;
>
> -- 
> 2.17.1

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-12 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12 11:18 [dpdk-dev] " Alejandro Lucero
2018-11-12 11:26 ` Eelco Chaudron [this message]
2018-11-14 12:45   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Eelco Chaudron
2018-11-15 13:16 ` [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2018-11-16 12:49   ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-11-16 13:35     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-11-16 14:42       ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-11-16 15:56         ` Burakov, Anatoly

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