Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] Fix rte_is_power_of_2

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2015-01-19 08:21, David Marchand:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > It seems that your fix result in cannot launching applications.
> > I don't suspect the correction of your fix, but somewhere else needs to be
> > corrected together with your fix.
> >
> > Logs:
> > /************************************************************
> > RING: Cannot reserve memory for tailq
> 
> I have a quick fix for this one (rte_malloc_socket refuses 0 alignment),
> but looking at the change, I would say there are a lot of places to be
> checked.
> Were those places checked during review ?

http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=2fc8d6daa4c7a
This case demonstrates that an Acked-by line is not always sufficient
to apply a patch.

> Kerur, did you run a make test ?
> All tests fail for me because of rte_malloc_socket.

My dream would be to have a machine receiving patches, applying them in a sandbox,
run some basic tests and reports failures.

It should be fixed now:
        http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=8e3e06501660

-- 
Thomas