Hi Olivier,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:43 PM
> To: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattun...@marvell.com>
> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>; Andrew Rybchenko
> <arybche...@solarflare.com>; Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@linux.intel.com>;
> Giridharan, Ganesan <ggiridha...@rbbn.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jer...@marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar Kokkilagadda <kirankum...@marvell.com>;
> Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <tho...@monjalon.net>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH 1/5] mempool: allow unaligned addr/len in populate
> virt
>
> Hi Vamsi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 09:02:26AM +0000, Vamsi Krishna Attunuru wrote:
> > Hi Olivier,
> >
> > Thanks for patch set, able run the tests with 512MB page size with
> > this patch set on Octeontx2 platform, somehow mbuf is holding null
> > fields when pool is created with 2MB page size, tests like l3fwd, kni
> > are failing due to the malformed mbufs. Can you confirm if the patch
> > set was verified on any platform with different page sizes. Meanwhile I will
> also debug this issue.
>
> Thank you for testing.
> I tested the patch locally on x86 with 2MB huge pages, and using travis-ci.
>
> Maybe it is related to the octeontx2 mempool driver? There is a specific
> condition to align the object start address to a multiple of total_elt_sz.
>
> Is it this specific patch that breaks your test? Or is it the full patchset?
No, I am testing full patchset. I will check with specific patches to narrow
down the non-working case.
>
> Thanks,
> Olivier
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards
> > A Vamsi
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:31 PM
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>; Andrew Rybchenko
> > > <arybche...@solarflare.com>; Ferruh Yigit
> > > <ferruh.yi...@linux.intel.com>; Giridharan, Ganesan
> > > <ggiridha...@rbbn.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> > > <jer...@marvell.com>; Kiran Kumar Kokkilagadda
> > > <kirankum...@marvell.com>; Stephen Hemminger
> > > <sthem...@microsoft.com>; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>;
> > > Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattun...@marvell.com>
> > > Subject: [EXT] [PATCH 1/5] mempool: allow unaligned addr/len in
> > > populate virt
> > >
> > > External Email
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > --
> > > rte_mempool_populate_virt() currently requires that both addr and
> > > length are page-aligned.
> > >
> > > Remove this uneeded constraint which can be annoying with big hugepages
> (ex:
> > > 1GB).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
> > > ---
> > > lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 18 +++++++-----------
> > > lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h | 3 +--
> > > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > index 0f29e8712..76cbacdf3 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > @@ -368,17 +368,11 @@ rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool
> > > *mp, char *addr,
> > > size_t off, phys_len;
> > > int ret, cnt = 0;
> > >
> > > - /* address and len must be page-aligned */
> > > - if (RTE_PTR_ALIGN_CEIL(addr, pg_sz) != addr)
> > > - return -EINVAL;
> > > - if (RTE_ALIGN_CEIL(len, pg_sz) != len)
> > > - return -EINVAL;
> > > -
> > > if (mp->flags & MEMPOOL_F_NO_IOVA_CONTIG)
> > > return rte_mempool_populate_iova(mp, addr, RTE_BAD_IOVA,
> > > len, free_cb, opaque);
> > >
> > > - for (off = 0; off + pg_sz <= len &&
> > > + for (off = 0; off < len &&
> > > mp->populated_size < mp->size; off += phys_len) {
> > >
> > > iova = rte_mem_virt2iova(addr + off); @@ -389,7 +383,10 @@
> > > rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *addr,
> > > }
> > >
> > > /* populate with the largest group of contiguous pages */
> > > - for (phys_len = pg_sz; off + phys_len < len; phys_len += pg_sz)
> > > {
> > > + for (phys_len = RTE_PTR_ALIGN_CEIL(addr + off + 1, pg_sz) -
> > > + (addr + off);
> > > + off + phys_len < len;
> > > + phys_len = RTE_MIN(phys_len + pg_sz, len - off)) {
> > > rte_iova_t iova_tmp;
> > >
> > > iova_tmp = rte_mem_virt2iova(addr + off + phys_len);
> @@ -575,8
> > > +572,7 @@ rte_mempool_populate_default(struct rte_mempool
> > > *mp)
> > > * have
> > > */
> > > mz = rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(mz_name, 0,
> > > - mp->socket_id, flags,
> > > - RTE_MAX(pg_sz, align));
> > > + mp->socket_id, flags, align);
> > > }
> > > if (mz == NULL) {
> > > ret = -rte_errno;
> > > @@ -601,7 +597,7 @@ rte_mempool_populate_default(struct
> rte_mempool
> > > *mp)
> > > (void *)(uintptr_t)mz);
> > > else
> > > ret = rte_mempool_populate_virt(mp, mz->addr,
> > > - RTE_ALIGN_FLOOR(mz->len, pg_sz), pg_sz,
> > > + mz->len, pg_sz,
> > > rte_mempool_memchunk_mz_free,
> > > (void *)(uintptr_t)mz);
> > > if (ret < 0) {
> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> > > b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> > > index 8053f7a04..0fe8aa7b8 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> > > @@ -1042,9 +1042,8 @@ int rte_mempool_populate_iova(struct
> > > rte_mempool *mp, char *vaddr,
> > > * A pointer to the mempool structure.
> > > * @param addr
> > > * The virtual address of memory that should be used to store objects.
> > > - * Must be page-aligned.
> > > * @param len
> > > - * The length of memory in bytes. Must be page-aligned.
> > > + * The length of memory in bytes.
> > > * @param pg_sz
> > > * The size of memory pages in this virtual area.
> > > * @param free_cb
> > > --
> > > 2.20.1
> >
