After the changes introduced by Dynamic Memzones, all the memsegs were added to the malloc heap during init.
Those changes did not account for IVSHMEM memsegs which should not be added to the malloc heap as part of available memory. Fixes: fafcc11985a2 ("mem: rework memzone to be allocated by malloc") Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com> --- lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c index 21d8914..d170d03 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c @@ -220,8 +220,17 @@ rte_eal_malloc_heap_init(void) for (ms = &mcfg->memseg[0], ms_cnt = 0; (ms_cnt < RTE_MAX_MEMSEG) && (ms->len > 0); - ms_cnt++, ms++) + ms_cnt++, ms++) { +#ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_IVSHMEM + /* + * if segment has ioremap address set, it's an IVSHMEM segment and + * it is not memory to allocate from. + */ + if (ms->ioremap_addr != 0) + continue; +#endif malloc_heap_add_memseg(&mcfg->malloc_heaps[ms->socket_id], ms); + } return 0; } -- 1.9.3