when secondary process is initialized(rte_eal_init), external memroy segments should not be attached. These segments will be attached by explicitly invoking rte_malloc_heap_memory_attach API
Fixes: ff3619d6244b ("malloc: allow attaching to external memory chunks") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Deepak Khandelwal <deepak.khandel...@intel.com> Suggested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> --- lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c index ee1a9e6..18d2176 100644 --- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c +++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memory.c @@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ void numa_error(char *where) msl = &mcfg->memsegs[msl_idx]; /* skip empty memseg lists */ - if (msl->memseg_arr.len == 0) + if (msl->memseg_arr.len == 0 || msl->external) continue; if (rte_fbarray_attach(&msl->memseg_arr)) { -- 1.8.3.1