[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] malloc: respect SIZE_HINT_ONLY when looking for the biggest free elem
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Sun Oct 28 11:50:52 CET 2018
08/10/2018 11:02, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 07-Oct-18 8:31 PM, Darek Stojaczyk wrote:
> > RTE_MEMZONE_SIZE_HINT_ONLY wasn't checked in any way,
> > causing size hints to be parsed as hard requirements.
> > This resulted in some allocations being failed prematurely.
> >
> > Fixes: 68b6092bd3c7 ("malloc: allow reserving biggest element")
> > Cc: anatoly.burakov at intel.com
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>
> > ---
> > lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
> > index ac7bbb3ba..d2a8bd8dc 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
> > @@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ find_biggest_element(struct malloc_heap *heap, size_t *size,
> > for (elem = LIST_FIRST(&heap->free_head[idx]);
> > !!elem; elem = LIST_NEXT(elem, free_list)) {
> > size_t cur_size;
> > - if (!check_hugepage_sz(flags, elem->msl->page_sz))
> > + if ((flags & RTE_MEMZONE_SIZE_HINT_ONLY) == 0 &&
> > + !check_hugepage_sz(flags,
> > + elem->msl->page_sz))
> > continue;
>
> Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>
> Although to be frank, the whole concept of "reserving biggest available
> memzone" is currently broken because of dynamic memory allocation. There
> is currently no way to allocate "as many hugepages as you can", so we're
> only looking at memory already allocated, which in the general case is
> less than page size long (unless you use legacy mode or memory
> preallocation switches).
Applied anyway, thanks
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