<div dir="ltr">yes, It reduces the opened files from 450 to 2.<div>Is there any down side of using --single-file-segments flag. Because if this is better why not make it the default behaviour.</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 3:42 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk <<a href="mailto:dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com">dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">2022-10-06 10:04 (UTC+0000), huzaifa.rahman: > Bugzilla ID: 560 > > The memory subsystem is leaving open a file descriptor for each > rtemap file. This can lead to hundreds of extra open file descriptors > which has negative side effects. For example, the application may go > over its maximum file descriptor limit, or the application may be using > limited API's like select that only allow 1024 file descriptors. > > The EAL memory subsystem does not need to hold the file open. > Probably the original intention was to keep the file locked, but that is > not necessary. The Linux kernel keeps a reference count on the file, > and the mmap counts is a reference and therefore maintains the file > as locked. > > The fix is just to close the file after it is setup. > > Signed-off-by: huzaifa.rahman <<a href="mailto:huzaifa.rahman@emumba.com" target="_blank">huzaifa.rahman@emumba.com</a>> > --- > lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c > index f8b1588cae..955c4e4f95 100644 > --- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c > +++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c > @@ -679,6 +679,9 @@ alloc_seg(struct rte_memseg *ms, void *addr, int socket_id, > > huge_recover_sigbus(); > > + close(fd); > + fd_list[list_idx].fds[seg_idx] = -1; > + > ms->addr = addr; > ms->hugepage_sz = alloc_sz; > ms->len = alloc_sz; This breaks rte_memseg_get_fd(). If memfd_create() was used to open the file descriptor, there seems no way to reopen it once closed. --single-file-segments may be used to save FD count, does using it solve your issue? </blockquote></div>