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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
	przemyslawx.lal@intel.com, kuralamudhan.ramakrishnan@intel.com,
	ivan.coughlan@intel.com, tiwei.bie@intel.com,
	ray.kinsella@intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] mem: use memfd for no-huge mode
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:59:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb9f72fa-8e76-d654-2707-704fb5d864ba@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed8bab1aec7b3bd9433435f32054df0e54911fff.1544701282.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

On 13-Dec-18 11:43 AM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> When running in no-huge mode, we anonymously allocate our memory.
> While this works for regular NICs and vdev's, it's not suitable
> for memory sharing scenarios such as virtio with vhost_user
> backend.
> 
> To fix this, allocate no-huge memory using memfd, and register
> it with memalloc just like any other memseg fd. This will enable
> using rte_memseg_get_fd() API with --no-huge EAL flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>      v3:
>      - Clarify release notes to state that the changes apply to
>        virtio-user NICs rather than virtio in general
>      
>      v2:
>      - Detect memfd support at compile time
>      - Change memfd-related log level to debug
> 
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst   |  5 +++
>   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
> index 960098582..f733ad139 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst
> @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ DPDK Release 19.02
>   New Features
>   ------------
>   
> +* **Support for using VirtIO without hugepages**

^^ oops, forgot to fix the title... Should be virtio-user.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13 17:54 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 19.02 0/2] Allow using virtio without hugepages Anatoly Burakov
2018-11-13 17:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 19.02 1/2] memalloc: allow setting up segment list fd's Anatoly Burakov
2018-11-13 17:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 19.02 2/2] mem: use memfd for no-huge mode Anatoly Burakov
2018-11-28  4:57   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-11-28  9:11     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] Allow using virtio without hugepages Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-13  4:53   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] Allow using virtio-user " Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-20 22:01     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] mem: fix error code for segment fd API for external segs Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-14  9:15     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] memalloc: check for memfd support in segment fd API Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-14  9:19     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] memalloc: allow setting up segment list fd's Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-14 10:03     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] mem: use memfd for no-huge mode Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-13 11:59     ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2018-12-14 10:06     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-13 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] test: add segment fd API test Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-14 10:09     ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] mem: fix error code for segment fd API for external segs Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] memalloc: check for memfd support in segment fd API Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] memalloc: allow setting up segment list fd's Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] mem: use memfd for no-huge mode Anatoly Burakov
2018-12-13  4:59   ` Tiwei Bie
2018-12-13 11:36     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2018-12-11 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] test: add segment fd API test Anatoly Burakov

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