[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 8/8] eal/windows: implement basic memory management

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 03:17:04 +0300
Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 May 2020 12:25:10 +0000
> Fady Bader <fady at mellanox.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 
> > > I meant the code of the application that calls
> > > rte_mempool_create(). Or is it one of the DPDK test applications?
> > >    
> > 
> > I got it from dpdk\app\test\test_mempool
> > 
> > Line 496:
> > /* create a mempool (without cache) */
> > mp_nocache = rte_mempool_create("test_nocache", MEMPOOL_SIZE,
> > 	MEMPOOL_ELT_SIZE, 0, 0,
> > 	NULL, NULL,
> > 	my_obj_init, NULL,
> > 	SOCKET_ID_ANY, 0);
> >  
> 
> For building this code you must have enabled librte_ring,
> librte_mempool, and drivers/mempool, and I assume you build test code
> without librte_cmdline somehow. This are nontrivial changes, so I
> can't be sure to reproduce them exactly. Can you please share a
> complete patch?

Never mind, managed to reproduce it.

> Meanwhile, I observe a similar issue where rte_mempool_create() fails
> to allocate memory and hangs when compiled with Clang, succeeds with
> native MinGW, but still hangs with cross MinGW. I'm investigating it.

I must have messed up with my build setup, because I observe this no
more, now that I'm testing it from scratch with different toolchains and
their versions.
 
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Dmitry Kozlyuk