Hi Morten,
> > > Added information about the memory chunks holding the objects in the
> > > mempool when dumping the status of the mempool to a file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com>
> > > ---
> > > lib/mempool/rte_mempool.c | 10 ++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > index 12390a2c81..e9a8a5b411 100644
> > > --- a/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > +++ b/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > > @@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@ rte_mempool_dump(FILE *f, struct rte_mempool *mp)
> > > #endif
> > > struct rte_mempool_memhdr *memhdr;
> > > struct rte_mempool_ops *ops;
> > > + unsigned int n;
> > > unsigned common_count;
> > > unsigned cache_count;
> > > size_t mem_len = 0;
> > > @@ -1264,6 +1265,15 @@ rte_mempool_dump(FILE *f, struct rte_mempool *mp)
> > > (long double)mem_len / mp->size);
> > > }
> > >
> > > + fprintf(f, " mem_list:\n");
> > > + n = 0;
> > > + STAILQ_FOREACH(memhdr, &mp->mem_list, next) {
> > > + fprintf(f, " addr[%u]=%p\n", n, memhdr->addr);
> > > + fprintf(f, " iova[%u]=0x%" PRIx64 "\n", n, memhdr->iova);
> > > + fprintf(f, " len[%u]=%zu\n", n, memhdr->len);
> > > + n++;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > cache_count = rte_mempool_dump_cache(f, mp);
> > > common_count = rte_mempool_ops_get_count(mp);
> > > if ((cache_count + common_count) > mp->size)
> > > --
> >
> > Just as a thought: do we want to print something (N/A?) when mp->mem_list is
> > empty?
>
> Good idea, Konstantin.
>
> Your feedback made me check what other dump functions print when the list is
> empty, and I saw that the mbuf library's dump
> function prints segments with multiple fields on the same line [1], as
> previously suggested by Stephen (and rejected by me, because I
> thought it was breaking conventions).
>
> [1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/dpdk/v24.03/source/lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c#L694
>
> Admitting that Stephen was on the right track with his suggestion, and I was
> wrong to reject it, we could omit the "mem_list:" header
> and print the list like this instead:
>
> STAILQ_FOREACH(memhdr, &mp->mem_list, next)
> fprintf(f, " memory chunk at %p, addr=%p, iova=0x%" PRIx64 ",
> len=%zu\n",
> memhdr, memhdr->addr, memhdr->iova, memhdr->len);
>
> The patch will be just these three lines of code, and nothing will be printed
> if the list is empty.
>
> What do you think?
Sounds reasonable to me.
>
> >
> > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@huawei.com>
> >
> >
> > > 2.17.1
