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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: "Lilijun (Jerry)" <jerry.lilijun@huawei.com>,
	xudingke <xudingke@huawei.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] eal/linux: do not create user mem map repeatedly when it exists
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:46:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <332ede30-4dae-1fde-b288-25f29469f3e7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34EFBCA9F01B0748BEB6B629CE643AE60D0D8765@DGGEMM533-MBX.china.huawei.com>

On 20-Jul-20 3:00 AM, wangyunjian wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burakov, Anatoly [mailto:anatoly.burakov@intel.com]
>> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 10:24 PM
>> To: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>; dev@dpdk.org;
>> david.marchand@redhat.com
>> Cc: Lilijun (Jerry) <jerry.lilijun@huawei.com>; xudingke
>> <xudingke@huawei.com>; stable@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] eal/linux: do not create user mem map
>> repeatedly when it exists
>>
>> On 17-Jul-20 3:19 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>>> On 16-Jul-20 2:38 PM, wangyunjian wrote:
>>>> From: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we will create new user mem map entry for the same memory
>>>> segment, but in fact it has already been added to the user mem maps.
>>>> It's not necessary to create it twice.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 0cbce3a167f1 ("vfio: skip DMA map failure if already mapped")
>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yunjian Wang <wangyunjian@huawei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c | 7 +++++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
>>>> b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c index abb12a354..d8a8c39ab 100644
>>>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_vfio.c
>>>> @@ -1828,6 +1828,13 @@ container_dma_map(struct vfio_config
>>>> *vfio_cfg, uint64_t vaddr, uint64_t iova,
>>>>            ret = -1;
>>>>            goto out;
>>>>        }
>>>> +
>>>> +    /* we don't need create new user mem map entry
>>>> +     * for the same memory segment.
>>>> +     */
>>>> +    if (errno == EBUSY || errno == EEXIST)
>>>> +        goto out;
>>>> +
>>>
>>> I'm not sure i understand this patch. If we get errno, the call has
>>> failed, which means we're doing "goto out" from a few lines above. Am
>>> i missing something here?
>>>
>>>>        /* create new user mem map entry */
>>>>        new_map =
>> &user_mem_maps->maps[user_mem_maps->n_maps++];
>>>>        new_map->addr = vaddr;
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oh, i see, the actual functions will set errno and return 0.
>>
>> I don't think it's an actual issue as compacting will presumably remove the
>> extra user mem map anyway. What exactly is being fixed here? Does
>> compacting user mem maps not remove the extra entry?
> 
> I read the codes about compacting user mem maps. Currently, the function
> only merges adjacent user mem maps and does not remove the same entry.
> 
> How about removing the same entry in the fuction?

I would've expected "the same" to be within the definition of 
"adjacent". Can you confirm that this actually doesn't happen? If so, 
then yes, probably compacting should do that, instead of relying on an 
artifact of implementation.

> 
> Thanks
> Yunjian
> 
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Anatoly


-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-20 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16 13:38 [dpdk-stable] " wangyunjian
2020-07-17 14:19 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2020-07-17 14:23   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-07-20  2:00     ` wangyunjian
2020-07-20 11:46       ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2020-07-22 12:47         ` wangyunjian
2020-07-23 14:48 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " wangyunjian
2020-07-24 13:25   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-07-25  9:59     ` wangyunjian
2020-07-27  9:24       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-07-30 13:16         ` wangyunjian
2020-07-31 11:55           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-08-05 12:58             ` wangyunjian
2020-09-17 11:33               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-09-17 11:35   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-10-15 12:46     ` wangyunjian
2020-10-15 12:54       ` David Marchand
2020-10-16  9:48         ` wangyunjian
2020-10-16  9:28   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: fix " wangyunjian
2020-10-20 14:09     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-15 14:23       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-22 18:20         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-23  7:40           ` wangyunjian
2020-11-27 12:54       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-12-07 11:08     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " wangyunjian
2021-03-25 13:38       ` wangyunjian
2021-03-25 14:30       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-03-25 16:45         ` Kevin Traynor
2021-04-10  9:37     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " wangyunjian
2021-04-19 11:47       ` Thomas Monjalon

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