Hi > Problem: > In DPDK Primary/Secondary module we assume mapping same regions of > virtual memory addresses for Primary process and Secondary. > An issue may occur when the Primary and secondary processes are not > symmetric in such way that the code is not the same (for example, Primary > process is a traffic distributer and secondary is a worker). The result may be > that specific virtual address region in the first process won't be available > in > the second process. > > Changes done at eal init: > map all related rte configuration and uio sections close to the end of huge > pages memory (that mean rte_eal_memory_init() should be called before > rte_config_init() in primary process) > According to our observations there will be more probability to success when > allocating rte_config and uio memzones after huge pages sections (actually > uio is already allocated after the huge pages area)
Not sure I understand the purpose of the patch. Doesn't --base-virtaddr flag solve your issues? Thanks, Anatoly
