[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/memif: zero-copy slave

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/17/2019 12:52 PM, Jakub Grajciar -X (jgrajcia - PANTHEON TECHNOLOGIES at
Cisco) wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jakub,
>>
>> Just to double check if anyone is looking into the bind() error issue which is
>> since following commit, I am waiting for more input on it.
>>
>> Commit b923866c6974 ("net/memif: allow for full key size in socket name")
>> Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org
> 
> Definitely an issue, I must have messed something up while applying the patch for testing, as it's not working for me either. I looked into bind() and it seems that the size has upper limit. Are you able to revert the patch?

+1 to logically revert the patch, but actually I think it is easier to do an
incremental patch on top of current head to fix the issue.

The patch replaces hard-coded 'key_len' to a macro which is good to keep, also
number of lines needs to be changed for fix looks less than number of lines will
 be changed by revert J

> 
> As for the issue that patch addresses, there is an incorrect information in the docs that 'socket' parameter length is 256b. It should be 108b as that is the limitation on Linux.

I don't know the doc but code has it as 256b [1] and the issue patch addresses
looks like a valid issue. If you are OK to limit the 'key_len' to 108 [2], the
fix is really easy.


[1]
http://lxr.dpdk.org/dpdk/v19.08/source/drivers/net/memif/memif_socket.h#L84

[2]
If I remember correctly the suggested length was 99 for portability, it seems
different OS has this value different and 99 is the smallest ...