[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 7/7] vhost: convert inflight data to DPDK allocation API

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 6:11 PM Maxime Coquelin
<maxime.coquelin at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Inflight metadata are allocated using glibc's calloc.
> This patch converts them to rte_zmalloc_socket to take
> care of the NUMA affinity.

About the title, maybe:
vhost: use DPDK allocations for inflight data

>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

[snip]

> diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> index d8ec087dfc..67935c4ccc 100644
> --- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c

[snip]

> @@ -1779,19 +1820,21 @@ vhost_check_queue_inflights_split(struct virtio_net *dev,
>         vq->last_avail_idx += resubmit_num;
>
>         if (resubmit_num) {
> -               resubmit  = calloc(1, sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_info));
> +               resubmit  = rte_zmalloc_socket("resubmit", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_info),

Nit: double space.


> +                               0, vq->numa_node);
>                 if (!resubmit) {
>                         VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
>                                 "failed to allocate memory for resubmit info.\n");
>                         return RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_ERR;
>                 }
>
> -               resubmit->resubmit_list = calloc(resubmit_num,
> -                       sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_desc));
> +               resubmit->resubmit_list = rte_zmalloc_socket("resubmit_list",
> +                               resubmit_num * sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_desc),
> +                               0, vq->numa_node);
>                 if (!resubmit->resubmit_list) {
>                         VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
>                                 "failed to allocate memory for inflight desc.\n");
> -                       free(resubmit);
> +                       rte_free(resubmit);
>                         return RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_ERR;
>                 }
>
> @@ -1873,19 +1916,21 @@ vhost_check_queue_inflights_packed(struct virtio_net *dev,
>         }
>
>         if (resubmit_num) {
> -               resubmit = calloc(1, sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_info));
> +               resubmit  = rte_zmalloc_socket("resubmit", sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_info),

Copy/paste detected :-)
Double space.

Having a single allocator between split and packed implems would avoid
this, but it might not be that easy and this is out of the scope for
this patch.



> +                               0, vq->numa_node);
>                 if (resubmit == NULL) {
>                         VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
>                                 "failed to allocate memory for resubmit info.\n");
>                         return RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_ERR;
>                 }
>
> -               resubmit->resubmit_list = calloc(resubmit_num,
> -                       sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_desc));
> +               resubmit->resubmit_list = rte_zmalloc_socket("resubmit_list",
> +                               resubmit_num * sizeof(struct rte_vhost_resubmit_desc),
> +                               0, vq->numa_node);
>                 if (resubmit->resubmit_list == NULL) {
>                         VHOST_LOG_CONFIG(ERR,
>                                 "failed to allocate memory for resubmit desc.\n");
> -                       free(resubmit);
> +                       rte_free(resubmit);
>                         return RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_ERR;
>                 }
>
> --
> 2.31.1
>


-- 
David Marchand