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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: thiery.ouattara@outscale.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: allow start two dpdk with no-huge option
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:00:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf6ffb9-7817-1ec5-b0c1-7ee510f2d400@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1531234465-31339-1-git-send-email-thiery.ouattara@outscale.com>

On 10-Jul-18 3:54 PM, thiery.ouattara@outscale.com wrote:
> From: Kignelman OUATTARA <thiery.ouattara@outscale.com>
> 
> in last version (v18.02), we was using no-huge option to
> start 2 dpdk instances simultanusly (for testing purpose).
> 
> but since v18.05 when we start 2 instances:
> - the first dpdk app start normaly
> - the 2nd can't start because LOCK_EX option is set in
>    flock(fd, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB).
> 
> So i did this patch to change LOCK_EX to LOCK_SH if no-huge
> option is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kignelman OUATTARA <thiery.ouattara@outscale.com>
> ---

Hi Kignelman,

I don't think this is safe to do. Even though hugepage memory is not 
used, the --no-huge mode still stores page segments in fbarrays, so 
while you would be able to *run* DPDK in such a scenario, the second 
process would corrupt the memory of the first.

As a proper alternative, i would suggest looking at my --in-memory mode 
patchset:

http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40582/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40583/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40585/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40584/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40587/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40586/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40588/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40590/
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/40589/

This will solve the problem at its source.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-10 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-10 14:54 thiery.ouattara
2018-07-10 15:00 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2018-07-10 15:19   ` Thiery Ouattara

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