[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] lib/mempool: allow page size aligned mempool

Zhang, Qi Z qi.z.zhang at intel.com
Thu Mar 21 15:23:47 CET 2019



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ananyev, Konstantin
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:01 PM
> To: Ye, Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Karlsson, Magnus
> <magnus.karlsson at intel.com>; Topel, Bjorn <bjorn.topel at intel.com>; Ye,
> Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] lib/mempool: allow page size aligned
> mempool
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Xiaolong Ye
> > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:19 AM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Karlsson, Magnus
> > <magnus.karlsson at intel.com>; Topel, Bjorn <bjorn.topel at intel.com>; Ye,
> > Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] lib/mempool: allow page size
> > aligned mempool
> >
> > Allow create a mempool with page size aligned base address.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 3 +++
> > lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > index 683b216f9..33ab6a2b4 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> > @@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ rte_mempool_populate_default(struct rte_mempool
> *mp)
> >  		if (try_contig)
> >  			flags |= RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG;
> >
> > +		if (mp->flags & MEMPOOL_F_PAGE_ALIGN)
> > +			align = getpagesize();
> > +
> 
> Might be a bit safer:
> pg_sz = getpagesize();
> align = RTE_MAX(align, pg_sz);
> 
> BTW, why do you need it always default page size aligned?
> Is it for 'external' memory allocation or even for eal hugepages too?

this help us to enable zero copy between xdp umem to mbuf.
af_xdp umem require 2K chunk size and also aligned on 2K address, 

Qi


> Konstantin
> 
> >  		mz = rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(mz_name, mem_size,
> >  				mp->socket_id, flags, align);
> >


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