When allocating memory for an ethdev, the rte_malloc_socket call used
only allocates memory on the NUMA node/socket local to the device. This
means that even if the user wanted to, they could never use a remote NIC
without also having memory on that NIC's socket.
For example, if we change examples/skeleton/basicfwd.c to have
SOCKET_ID_ANY as the socket_id parameter for Rx and Tx rings, we should
be able to run the app cross-numa e.g. as below, where the two PCI
devices are on socket 1, and core 1 is on socket 0:
./build/examples/dpdk-skeleton -l 1 --legacy-mem --socket-mem=1024,0 \
-a a8:00.0 -a b8:00.0
This fails however, with the error:
ETHDEV: failed to allocate private data
PCI_BUS: Requested device 0000:a8:00.0 cannot be used
We can remove this restriction by doing a fallback call to general
rte_malloc after a call to rte_malloc_socket fails. This should be safe
to do because the later ethdev calls to setup Rx/Tx queues all take a
socket_id parameter, which can be used by applications to enforce the
requirement for local-only memory for a device, if so desired. [If
device-local memory is present it will be used as before, while if not
present the rte_eth_dev_configure call will now pass, but the subsequent
queue setup calls requesting local memory will fail].
Fixes: e489007a411c ("ethdev: add generic create/destroy ethdev APIs")
Fixes: dcd5c8112bc3 ("ethdev: add PCI driver helpers")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Padraig Connolly <padraig.j.conno...@intel.com>
---
lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c | 7 ++++++-
lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h | 11 ++++++++++-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
index f48c0eb8bc..f9ce7ec348 100644
--- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
+++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.c
@@ -303,11 +303,16 @@ rte_eth_dev_create(struct rte_device *device, const char
*name,
return -ENODEV;
if (priv_data_size) {
+ /* try alloc private data on device-local node. */
ethdev->data->dev_private = rte_zmalloc_socket(
name, priv_data_size, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
device->numa_node);
+ /* fall back to alloc on any socket on failure */
+ if (ethdev->data->dev_private == NULL)
+ ethdev->data->dev_private = rte_zmalloc(name,
+ priv_data_size,
RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
- if (!ethdev->data->dev_private) {
+ if (ethdev->data->dev_private == NULL) {
RTE_ETHDEV_LOG_LINE(ERR,
"failed to allocate private data");
retval = -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h
index 737fff1833..d600d9acbb 100644
--- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h
+++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h
@@ -93,10 +93,19 @@ rte_eth_dev_pci_allocate(struct rte_pci_device *dev, size_t
private_data_size)
return NULL;
if (private_data_size) {
+ /* Try and alloc the private-data structure on socket
local to the device */
eth_dev->data->dev_private = rte_zmalloc_socket(name,
private_data_size, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
dev->device.numa_node);
- if (!eth_dev->data->dev_private) {
+
+ /* if cannot allocate memory on the socket local to the
device
+ * use rte_malloc to allocate memory on some other
socket, if available.
+ */
+ if (eth_dev->data->dev_private == NULL)
+ eth_dev->data->dev_private = rte_zmalloc(name,
+ private_data_size, RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+
+ if (eth_dev->data->dev_private == NULL) {
rte_eth_dev_release_port(eth_dev);
return NULL;
}
--
2.43.0
