[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/5] mempool: populate mempool with the page sized chunks of memory

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 7/29/19 3:13 PM, vattunuru at marvell.com wrote:
> From: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
>
> Patch adds a routine to populate mempool from page aligned and
> page sized chunks of memory to ensure memory objs do not fall
> across the page boundaries. It's useful for applications that
> require physically contiguous mbuf memory while running in
> IOVA=VA mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar K <kirankumark at marvell.com>

When two below issues fixed:
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>

As I understand it is likely to be a temporary solution until the problem
is fixed in a generic way.

> ---
>   lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c           | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h           | 17 ++++++++
>   lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map |  1 +
>   3 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> index 7260ce0..00619bd 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> @@ -414,6 +414,70 @@ rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *addr,
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> +/* Function to populate mempool from page sized mem chunks, allocate page size
> + * of memory in memzone and populate them. Return the number of objects added,
> + * or a negative value on error.
> + */
> +int
> +rte_mempool_populate_from_pg_sz_chunks(struct rte_mempool *mp)
> +{
> +	char mz_name[RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE];
> +	size_t align, pg_sz, pg_shift;
> +	const struct rte_memzone *mz;
> +	unsigned int mz_id, n;
> +	size_t min_chunk_size;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = mempool_ops_alloc_once(mp);
> +	if (ret != 0)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	if (mp->nb_mem_chunks != 0)
> +		return -EEXIST;
> +
> +	pg_sz = get_min_page_size(mp->socket_id);
> +	pg_shift = rte_bsf32(pg_sz);
> +
> +	for (mz_id = 0, n = mp->size; n > 0; mz_id++, n -= ret) {
> +
> +		ret = rte_mempool_ops_calc_mem_size(mp, n,
> +				pg_shift, &min_chunk_size, &align);
> +
> +		if (ret < 0 || min_chunk_size > pg_sz)

If min_chunk_size is greater than pg_sz, ret is 0 and function returns 
success.

> +			goto fail;
> +
> +		ret = snprintf(mz_name, sizeof(mz_name),
> +			RTE_MEMPOOL_MZ_FORMAT "_%d", mp->name, mz_id);
> +		if (ret < 0 || ret >= (int)sizeof(mz_name)) {
> +			ret = -ENAMETOOLONG;
> +			goto fail;
> +		}
> +
> +		mz = rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(mz_name, min_chunk_size,
> +				mp->socket_id, 0, align);
> +
> +		if (mz == NULL) {
> +			ret = -rte_errno;
> +			goto fail;
> +		}
> +
> +		ret = rte_mempool_populate_iova(mp, mz->addr,
> +				mz->iova, mz->len,
> +				rte_mempool_memchunk_mz_free,
> +				(void *)(uintptr_t)mz);
> +		if (ret < 0) {
> +			rte_memzone_free(mz);
> +			goto fail;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return mp->size;
> +
> +fail:
> +	rte_mempool_free_memchunks(mp);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
>   /* Default function to populate the mempool: allocate memory in memzones,
>    * and populate them. Return the number of objects added, or a negative
>    * value on error.
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> index 8053f7a..3046e4f 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
> @@ -1062,6 +1062,23 @@ rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *addr,
>   	void *opaque);
>   
>   /**

  * @warning
  * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice.

is missing

> + * Add memory from page sized memzones for objects in the pool at init
> + *
> + * This is the function used to populate the mempool with page aligned and
> + * page sized memzone memory to avoid spreading object memory across two pages
> + * and to ensure all mempool objects reside on the page memory.
> + *
> + * @param mp
> + *   A pointer to the mempool structure.
> + * @return
> + *   The number of objects added on success.
> + *   On error, the chunk is not added in the memory list of the
> + *   mempool and a negative errno is returned.
> + */
> +__rte_experimental
> +int rte_mempool_populate_from_pg_sz_chunks(struct rte_mempool *mp);
> +
> +/**
>    * Add memory for objects in the pool at init
>    *
>    * This is the default function used by rte_mempool_create() to populate
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map
> index 17cbca4..9a6fe65 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map
> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map
> @@ -57,4 +57,5 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
>   	global:
>   
>   	rte_mempool_ops_get_info;
> +	rte_mempool_populate_from_pg_sz_chunks;
>   };