Hi, David I've re-checked the mlx5_hlist_create() call tree.
And it seems all the calls are done with hardcoded const values for "size" argument, and all these values are powers-of-2. We had an issue in the past, but then I was not seeing this warning for a long time on my setup. With best regards, Slava > -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 15:02 > To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; > ferruh.yi...@intel.com; Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>; Suanming Mou > <suanmi...@nvidia.com>; Maxime Coquelin > <maxime.coque...@redhat.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] common/mlx5: decrease log level for hlist creation > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:14 PM Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, David > > > > In general, I'm OK with lowering the log level. > > But we do not expect the warning " is not power of 2". > > What mlx5_hlist_create() call caused this? > > That's something Maxime can see on RHEL8 with CX6 devices. > I remember seeing it too in the (recent) past, probably when working with our > QE. > So far, I did not associate this log presence to functional issues. > > > Looking at DPDK mailing lists: > http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/?q=%220xFFFF+is+not+power+of+2%22 > http://inbox.dpdk.org/users/?q=%220xFFFF+is+not+power+of+2%22 > > So we are not the only ones seeing this. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 22:34 > > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > > Cc: NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; > > > ferruh.yi...@intel.com; Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>; Slava > > > Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Suanming Mou > > > <suanmi...@nvidia.com> > > > Subject: [PATCH] common/mlx5: decrease log level for hlist creation > > > > > > Initialising mlx5 devices in OVS, I get the following logs: > > > 2021-11-16T20:08:37Z|00021|dpdk|INFO|EAL: Probe PCI driver: > mlx5_pci > > > (15b3:101d) device: 0000:3b:00.0 (socket 0) > > > 2021-11-16T20:08:37Z|00022|dpdk|INFO|common_mlx5: RTE_MEM is > > > selected. > > > 2021-11-16T20:08:38Z|00023|dpdk|WARN|mlx5_pci: Size 0xFFFF is not > > > power of 2, will be aligned to 0x10000. > > > > Can we remove not too meaningful details from commit message? > > Date/time in messages: 2021-11-16T20:08:38Z|00023| ? > > I don't mind. > Logs were coming from OVS unit tests but the same can most likely be > reproduced with testpmd. > > > -- > David Marchand
