On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:46:53AM +0000, Dey, Souvik wrote:
> Hi ,
> I am trying to do rte_pktmbuf_alloc from a mempool within a
> secondary process after doing a rte_mempool_lookup for the same mempool. But
> the rte_pktmbuf_alloc crashes with the below backtrace
I believe it's yet another "accessing a local process pointer in a shared
memory" issue in the multiple process model. Here is a similar issue I have
just fixed for virtio pmd in last release.
commit 6d890f8ab51295045a53f41c4d2654bb1f01cf38
Author: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan....@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri Jan 6 18:16:19 2017 +0800
net/virtio: fix multiple process support
--yliu
>
> #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> #1 0x0000000000423da2 in rte_mempool_ops_dequeue_bulk (n=1,
> obj_table=0x7fffffffd8e0, mp=0x7fe910fbd540) at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/dist
> #2 __mempool_generic_get (flags=<optimized out>, cache=<optimized out>,
> n=<optimized out>, obj_table=<optimized out>, mp=<optimized out>)
> at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mempool.h:1296
> #3 rte_mempool_generic_get (flags=<optimized out>, cache=<optimized out>,
> n=<optimized out>, obj_table=<optimized out>, mp=<optimized out>)
> at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mempool.h:1334
> #4 rte_mempool_get_bulk (n=1, obj_table=0x7fffffffd8e0, mp=0x7fe910fbd540)
> at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp
> #5 rte_mempool_get (obj_p=0x7fffffffd8e0, mp=0x7fe910fbd540) at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/r
> #6 rte_mbuf_raw_alloc (mp=0x7fe910fbd540) at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mbuf.h:761
> #7 rte_pktmbuf_alloc (mp=0x7fe910fbd540) at
> /sonus/p4/ws/sodey/cmn_thirdparty.cloud_dev_5_1/Intel/DPDK/distrib_upd/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_mbuf.h:1046
>
> >From the trace it looks like that the ops->dequeue is failing as the ops is
> >not set properly.
> In the primary process I have done a rte_mempool_create with the flags passed
> as 0 (indicating mp_mc option). This should have taken care of setting the
> ops properly. Also the rte_pktmbuf_alloc calls in the primary does not give
> any issues.
> Both the primary and secondary DPDK app code was working fine with 2.1 DPDK,
> but now when I am trying to link to the newer DPDK versions like 16.07/16.11,
> it is crashing. There is no changes done in the app code.
> I do see that the complete rte_mempool code has been changed between 2.1 to
> 16.07 but could not find any obvious reasons of the crash. Is my usage wrong
> or do we need to pass any new flag to make this work.
>
> Did anyone faced similar issue or any help in this will be great for my
> debugging. Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Souvik
