If there is no memory available on the same numa node than the device, it is preferable to fallback on another socket instead of failing.
Fixes: 1e3a39f72d5d ("net/mlx5: allocate verbs object into shared memory") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c index 1c95f3520..312f3d5be 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c @@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ mlx5_alloc_verbs_buf(size_t size, void *data) assert(data != NULL); ret = rte_malloc_socket(__func__, size, alignment, priv->dev->device->numa_node); + if (ret == NULL) + ret = rte_malloc_socket(__func__, size, alignment, + SOCKET_ID_ANY); + DEBUG("Extern alloc size: %lu, align: %lu: %p", size, alignment, ret); return ret; } -- 2.11.0