[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] malloc: notify primary process about hotplug in secondary
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Mon Dec 10 11:49:05 CET 2018
On 07-Dec-18 8:10 PM, Seth Howell wrote:
> When secondary process hotplugs memory, it sends a request
> to primary, which then performs the real mmap() and sends
> sync requests to all secondary processes. Upon receiving
> such sync request, each secondary process will notify the
> upper layers of hotplugged memory (and will call all
> locally registered event callbacks).
>
> In the end we'll end up with memory event callbacks fired
> in all the processes except the primary, which is a bug.
>
> This gets critical if memory is hotplugged while a VFIO
> device is attached, as the VFIO memory registration -
> which is done from a memory event callback present in the
> primary process only - is never called.
>
> After this patch, a primary process fires memory event
> callbacks before secondary processes start their
> synchronizations - both for hotplug and hotremove.
>
> Fixes: 07dcbfe0101f ("malloc: support multiprocess memory hotplug")
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Howell <seth.howell at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>
> ---
Lost my review tag...
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
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Thanks,
Anatoly
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