Hi Ilya,
On Sun, 14 May 2017 14:34:14 +0400, Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a problem while running DPDK with `--no-huge` option. It seems that
> the problem occurs since commit cdc242f260e766bd95a658b5e0686a62ec04f5b0 and
> that is the change that affects me:
>
> + if ((page & 0x7fffffffffffffULL) == 0)
> + return RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;
> +
>
> What I did is to try to create memory pool using rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(). I
> dig into the issue and found that in my case “page" value is
> 0x0080000000000000 which means that the page is not present and “soft-dirty”
> (according to kernel’s documentation):
>
> * Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
> * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
> * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
> * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
> * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
> * Bits 57-60 zero
> * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
> * Bit 62 page swapped
> * Bit 63 page present
>
> So, before the change mentioned all “works” fine and such pages were not
> handled. But now the check causes rte_mempool_populate_default to fail with
> -EINVAL...
> Can anyone familiar with the memory pool allocation helps with the issue?
>
> Thanks in advice,
> Ilya Matveychikov.
>
I can reproduce the issue:
make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
make -j32 EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O0 -g"
mkdir -p /mnt/huge
mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
echo 256 >
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
# ok
./build/app/testpmd -l 2,4 --log-level 8 --vdev=eth_null0 -- --no-numa
--total-num-mbufs=4096 -i --port-topology=chained
# fail
./build/app/testpmd --no-huge -l 2,4 --log-level 8 --vdev=eth_null0 --
--no-numa --total-num-mbufs=4096 -i --port-topology=chained
I confirm that rte_mem_virt2phy() returns RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR,
which makes rte_mempool_populate_virt() to fail.
Reverting cdc242f260e7 ("eal/linux: support running as unprivileged user")
fixes the problem. Actually, it makes rte_mem_virt2phy() return 0 instead
of RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR, which is seen as a valid address.
I think querying the physical address when using --no-huge does not make
sense because the memory is not locked, and could be swapped.
Another strange thing, when using --no-huge, the physical address returned
when allocating a memzone is the virtual address.
I see several solutions to fix the issue:
1/ Always set physical addresses to RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR when started
with --no-huge. We consider that the physical address is invalid
in that case and must not be used.
This impacts rte_mem_virt2phy() and memzone_reserve*() functions.
In rte_mempool_populate_virt(), don't expect a physical address
if the application is started with --no-huge.
2/ Change rte_mem_virt2phy() to return the virtual address when we
ask for the physical address when started with --no-huge. This is
wrong, but consistent with what is done in memzones today.
In rte_mem_virt2phy(), add at the beginning:
if (!rte_eal_has_hugepages())
return (intptr_t)virtaddr;
3/ lock pages in memory by reverting
729f17a932dd ("mem: revert page locking when not using hugepages")
This would make the physical address available.
As explained in the commit log, this would also break the ability to
start dpdk with --no-huge for non-root users.
I think 1/ is better. I'm sending a patch in reply to this mail.
Ilya, please let me know if it fixes your issue.
Regards,
Olivier
