[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] mbuf: create packet pool with external memory buffers

[Slava Ovsiienko]

Hi, Olivier

Great! Thanks a lot for the unit test template, this is very nice starting point,
I will think what would be good to add for more thorough testing.

With best regards, Slava
 
> One more thing: it would be nice to have a functional test for this new
> feature. I did a very minimal one to check the basic alloc/free/attach
> feature, you can restart from that if you want.
> 
> static int
> test_ext_pinned(int test_case)
> {
> 	struct rte_pktmbuf_extmem ext_mem;
> 	struct rte_mempool *pinned_pool = NULL;
> 	struct rte_mempool *std_pool = NULL;
> 	const struct rte_memzone *mz = NULL;
> 	struct rte_mbuf *m = NULL, *m2 = NULL;
> 
> 	printf("Test mbuf pool with mbufs data pinned to external buffer
> (%d)\n", test_case);
> 
> 	std_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create("std_pool",
> 			NB_MBUF, MEMPOOL_CACHE_SIZE, 0,
> MBUF_DATA_SIZE,
> 			SOCKET_ID_ANY);
> 	if (std_pool == NULL)
> 		GOTO_FAIL("std_pool alloc failed");
> 
> 	mz = rte_memzone_reserve("std_pool",
> 				NB_MBUF * sizeof(struct rte_mbuf),
> 				SOCKET_ID_ANY,
> 
> 	RTE_MEMZONE_2MB|RTE_MEMZONE_SIZE_HINT_ONLY);
> 	if (mz == NULL)
> 		GOTO_FAIL("memzone alloc failed");
> 
> 	ext_mem.buf_ptr = mz->addr;
> 	ext_mem.buf_iova = mz->iova;
> 	ext_mem.buf_len = mz->len;
> 	ext_mem.elt_size = sizeof(struct rte_mbuf);
> 
> 	pinned_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create_extbuf("pinned_pool",
> 					NB_MBUF, MEMPOOL_CACHE_SIZE,
> 					0, 0, SOCKET_ID_ANY, &ext_mem, 1);
> 	if (pinned_pool == NULL)
> 		GOTO_FAIL("pinned_pool alloc failed");
> 
> 	m = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(pinned_pool);
> 	if (unlikely(m == NULL))
> 		goto fail;
> 
> 	if (test_case != 0) {
> 		m2 = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(std_pool);
> 		if (unlikely(m == NULL))
> 			goto fail;
> 		rte_pktmbuf_attach(m2, m);
> 	}
> 
> 	if (test_case == 0) {
> 		rte_pktmbuf_free(m);
> 	} else if (test_case == 1) {
> 		rte_pktmbuf_free(m);
> 		rte_pktmbuf_free(m2);
> 	} else if (test_case == 2) {
> 		rte_pktmbuf_free(m2);
> 		rte_pktmbuf_free(m);
> 	}
> 
> 
> 	rte_mempool_free(pinned_pool);
> 	rte_memzone_free(mz);
> 	rte_mempool_free(std_pool);
> 	return 0;
> 
> fail:
> 	rte_pktmbuf_free(m2);
> 	rte_pktmbuf_free(m);
> 	rte_mempool_free(pinned_pool);
> 	rte_memzone_free(mz);
> 	rte_mempool_free(std_pool);
> 	return -1;
> }