[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] avoid testpmd only working in XEN
Christian Ehrhardt
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Fri Mar 11 08:09:52 CET 2016
Hi,
I realized I should be adding Pablo as the testpmd maintainer for
acceptance / feedback.
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Christian Ehrhardt <
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> With LIBRTE_PMD_XENVIRT enabled testpmd is built in a way to ONLY work
> in XEN environments.
> It will surface as:
> PMD: gntalloc: ioctl error
> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
> Cause: Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed
>
> With LIBRTE_PMD_XENVIRT enabled this now tries the xen style grant
> table allocation, but falls back gracefully for the normal allocation.
>
> The only thing left in the log will be the
> PMD: gntalloc: ioctl error
> ---
> app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
> index 1319917..b008df3 100644
> --- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
> +++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
> @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ mbuf_pool_create(uint16_t mbuf_seg_size, unsigned
> nb_mbuf,
> unsigned int socket_id)
> {
> char pool_name[RTE_MEMPOOL_NAMESIZE];
> - struct rte_mempool *rte_mp;
> + struct rte_mempool *rte_mp = NULL;
> uint32_t mb_size;
>
> mb_size = sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) + mbuf_seg_size;
> @@ -423,24 +423,23 @@ mbuf_pool_create(uint16_t mbuf_seg_size, unsigned
> nb_mbuf,
> rte_pktmbuf_pool_init, NULL,
> rte_pktmbuf_init, NULL,
> socket_id, 0);
> -
> -
> -
> -#else
> - if (mp_anon != 0)
> - rte_mp = mempool_anon_create(pool_name, nb_mbuf, mb_size,
> - (unsigned) mb_mempool_cache,
> - sizeof(struct
> rte_pktmbuf_pool_private),
> - rte_pktmbuf_pool_init, NULL,
> - rte_pktmbuf_init, NULL,
> - socket_id, 0);
> - else
> - /* wrapper to rte_mempool_create() */
> - rte_mp = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(pool_name, nb_mbuf,
> - mb_mempool_cache, 0, mbuf_seg_size, socket_id);
> -
> #endif
>
> + /* if the former XEN allocation failed fall back to normal
> allocation */
> + if (rte_mp == NULL) {
> + if (mp_anon != 0)
> + rte_mp = mempool_anon_create(pool_name, nb_mbuf,
> + mb_size, (unsigned)
> mb_mempool_cache,
> + sizeof(struct
> rte_pktmbuf_pool_private),
> + rte_pktmbuf_pool_init, NULL,
> + rte_pktmbuf_init, NULL,
> + socket_id, 0);
> + else
> + /* wrapper to rte_mempool_create() */
> + rte_mp = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(pool_name,
> nb_mbuf,
> + mb_mempool_cache, 0, mbuf_seg_size,
> socket_id);
> + }
> +
> if (rte_mp == NULL) {
> rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Creation of mbuf pool for socket
> %u "
> "failed\n", socket_id);
> --
> 2.7.0
>
>
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