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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Zhike Wang <wangzhike@jd.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, olivier.matz@6wind.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com,
	stable@dpdk.org, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool: fix memory allocation in memzones during retry.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:27:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8720199.fGh7NnkD9j@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0256a601-f2d2-2621-0ab4-1a1d0b7b932b@intel.com>

14/07/2020 11:32, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 14-Jul-20 8:26 AM, Zhike Wang wrote:
> > If allocation is successful on the first attempt, typically
> > there is no problem since we allocated everything required and
> > we'll terminate the loop (if memory chunk is really sufficient
> > to populate required number of mempool elements).
> > 
> > If the first attempt fails, we try to allocate half
> > of mem_size and it succeed, we'll have one more iteration of
> > the for-loop to allocate memory for remaining elements and
> > should not try the next time with quarter of the mem_size.
> > 
> > It is wrong that max_alloc_size is divided by 2 in the
> > case of successful allocation as well, or invalid memory
> > can be allocated, and leads to population failure, then errno
> > other than ENOMEM may be returned.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3a3d0c75b43e ("mempool: fix slow allocation of large pools")

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhike Wang <wangzhike@jd.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied, thanks




      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21 23:27 UTC|newest]

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2020-07-14  7:26 ` [dpdk-stable] " Zhike Wang
2020-07-14  9:32   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2020-07-21 23:27     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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