[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_packet: set default blocksize to pagesize

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 6/24/2019 3:32 PM, kkanas at marvell.com wrote:
> From: Krzysztof Kanas <kkanas at marvell.com>
> 
> Kernel validates block size to be aligned to page size. Code works on
> platforms with page size 4k, but on others e.g. Arm64 fails with default
> parameters.

What is the pagesize in arm64?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kanas <kkanas at marvell.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c b/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> index 4a660d5f013f..ec3d2cbb5202 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
>  #define ETH_AF_PACKET_FRAMECOUNT_ARG	"framecnt"
>  #define ETH_AF_PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS_ARG	"qdisc_bypass"
>  
> -#define DFLT_BLOCK_SIZE		(1 << 12)
>  #define DFLT_FRAME_SIZE		(1 << 11)
>  #define DFLT_FRAME_COUNT	(1 << 9)
>  
> @@ -811,7 +810,7 @@ rte_eth_from_packet(struct rte_vdev_device *dev,
>  	struct rte_kvargs_pair *pair = NULL;
>  	unsigned k_idx;
>  	unsigned int blockcount;
> -	unsigned int blocksize = DFLT_BLOCK_SIZE;
> +	unsigned int blocksize;
>  	unsigned int framesize = DFLT_FRAME_SIZE;
>  	unsigned int framecount = DFLT_FRAME_COUNT;
>  	unsigned int qpairs = 1;
> @@ -821,6 +820,7 @@ rte_eth_from_packet(struct rte_vdev_device *dev,
>  	if (*sockfd < 0)
>  		return -1;
>  
> +	blocksize = getpagesize();
>  	/*
>  	 * Walk arguments for configurable settings
>  	 */
>