[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] mempool: remove check for bad IOVA when populating

[Anatoly Burakov]

Currently, mempool will check if IOVA is bad for a segment, and reject
the IOVA if hugepages are also enabled. This check is wrong because now
that we have external memory segments, they are allowed to have their
IOVA's to be invalid. This check also doesn't make much sense in the
first place, because the following code can handle bad IOVA's perfectly
well (and in fact, this check is not triggering a failure when
--no-huge option is enabled), so there is not much sense to check for
this in the first place.

Fixes: 950e8fb4e194 ("mem: allow registering external memory areas")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---

Notes:
    An alternative implementation would be to add a socket ID check to see
    if the memory being allocated from belongs to an external segment.

 lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
index 8da2e471c7..78d8eb941e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
+++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
@@ -390,11 +390,6 @@ rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *addr,
 
 		iova = get_iova(addr + off);
 
-		if (iova == RTE_BAD_IOVA && rte_eal_has_hugepages()) {
-			ret = -EINVAL;
-			goto fail;
-		}
-
 		/* populate with the largest group of contiguous pages */
 		for (phys_len = RTE_MIN(
 			(size_t)(RTE_PTR_ALIGN_CEIL(addr + off + 1, pg_sz) -
-- 
2.17.1