From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: make hugetlb initialization more robust
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:38:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUvO=Y=VP+hPKqv6E49TRon4_e4pcgZvYRq_HXz1-LpC8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63ae23d7-7ca3-46e5-cfc1-1a6684395428@intel.com>
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
<sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com> wrote:
> On 17/05/2016 17:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>
>> 2016-05-12 00:44, Jianfeng Tan:
>>>
>>> This patch adds an option, --huge-trybest, to use a recover mechanism to
>>> the case that there are not so many hugepages (declared in sysfs), which
>>> can be used. It relys on a mem access to fault-in hugepages, and if fails
>>
>> relys -> relies
>>
>>> with SIGBUS, recover to previously saved stack environment with
>>> siglongjmp().
>>>
>>> Besides, this solution fixes an issue when hugetlbfs is specified with an
>>> option of size. Currently DPDK does not respect the quota of a hugetblfs
>>> mount. It fails to init the EAL because it tries to map the number of
>>> free
>>> hugepages in the system rather than using the number specified in the
>>> quota
>>> for that mount.
>>
>> It looks to be a bug. Why adding an option?
>> What is the benefit of the old behaviour, not using --try-best?
>
>
> I do not see any benefit to the old behavior.
> Given that we need the signal handling for the cgroup use case, I would be
> inclined to use
> this method as the default instead of trying to figure out how many
> hugepages we have free, etc.
+1
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 18:49 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: add cgroup-aware resource self discovery Jianfeng Tan
2016-01-25 13:46 ` Neil Horman
2016-01-26 2:22 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-26 14:19 ` Neil Horman
2016-01-27 12:02 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-01-27 17:30 ` Neil Horman
2016-01-29 11:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: make resource initialization more robust Jianfeng Tan
2016-02-01 18:08 ` Neil Horman
2016-02-22 6:08 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-02-22 13:18 ` Neil Horman
2016-02-28 21:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-29 1:50 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 10:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add option --avail-cores to detect lcores Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08 8:54 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-08 17:38 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 13:05 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-09 13:53 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 14:01 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 14:17 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 14:44 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 14:55 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 15:17 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-09 17:45 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-09 19:33 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-10 1:36 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-18 12:46 ` David Marchand
2016-05-19 2:25 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-06-30 13:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-01 0:52 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-04-26 12:39 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-03-04 10:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: make hugetlb initialization more robust Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08 1:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-03-08 8:46 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-04 11:07 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-04 11:28 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-04 12:25 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-09 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-05-10 8:54 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-10 9:11 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-12 0:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-05-17 16:39 ` David Marchand
2016-05-18 7:56 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-18 9:34 ` David Marchand
2016-05-19 2:00 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-17 16:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-18 8:06 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-05-18 9:38 ` David Marchand [this message]
2016-05-19 2:11 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-05-31 3:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] eal: fix allocating all free hugepages Jianfeng Tan
2016-06-06 2:49 ` Pei, Yulong
2016-06-08 11:27 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-06-30 13:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-08-31 3:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: restrict cores detection Jianfeng Tan
2016-08-31 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-09-01 1:15 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-09-01 1:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Jianfeng Tan
2016-09-02 16:53 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-16 14:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-16 14:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-02 17:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: restrict cores auto detection Jianfeng Tan
2016-12-08 18:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-09 15:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-21 14:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
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