[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: return error message for mbuf allocation failure

[Flavio Leitner]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:31:07 +0200
Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org> wrote:

> mbuf allocation failure is a hard failure that highlights some
> significant issues with memory pool size or a mbuf leak.
> 
> We still have the message for subsequent chained mbufs, but not
> for the first one.  It was removed while introducing extbuf
> support for large buffers.  But it was useful for catching
> mempool issues and needs to be returned back.
> 
> Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
> 
> Fixes: 5005bcda7123 ("vhost: add support for large buffers")
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>


Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
Thanks Ilya
fbl

> ---
>  lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c index 66f0c7206..f8af4e0b3 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> @@ -1354,8 +1354,11 @@ virtio_dev_pktmbuf_alloc(struct virtio_net
> *dev, struct rte_mempool *mp, {
>  	struct rte_mbuf *pkt = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mp);
>  
> -	if (unlikely(pkt == NULL))
> +	if (unlikely(pkt == NULL)) {
> +		RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_DATA,
> +			"Failed to allocate memory for mbuf.\n");
>  		return NULL;
> +	}
>  
>  	if (rte_pktmbuf_tailroom(pkt) >= data_len)
>  		return pkt;