[EXT] Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mem: telemetry support for system memory information

[Amit Prakash Shukla]

Thanks David for the feedback. Please find the proposed fixed inline.

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> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 1:17 AM
> To: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs at marvell.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>; Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>;
> dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com
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> bruce.richardson at intel.com; ciara.power at intel.com
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> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 1:44 PM Amit Prakash Shukla
> <amitprakashs at marvell.com> wrote:
> >
> > Changes adds telemetry support to display system memory information,
> > allocated using calls malloc, calloc, mmap, etc. This patch is based
> > on malloc_info. This patch adds following endpoints:
> 
> malloc_info is a GNU extension.
> It is not available in musl and it breaks compilation in Alpine Linux.
> So I can't take this patch.

Shall we limit this for Glibc at compile time ?

+#if defined __GLIBC__ && defined __GLIBC_PREREQ
+#if __GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 10)
        /* Gets system memory stat's XML format. */
        ret = malloc_info(0, fp);
+#endif
+#else
+       RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "Error: malloc_info not supported by libc\n");
+       fclose(fp);
+       return -1;
+#endif

I will send out a v6 if the above solution is fine.

> 
> 
> >
> > 1. /sysmem/sys_heap_list
> > The commands displays the arenas currently in use.
> > Example:
> > --> /sysmem/sys_heap_list
> > {"/sysmem/sys_heap_list": [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]}
> >
> 
> I am unsure about the command names.
> 
> Those commands are really low level and tied to glibc malloc.
> It is unlikely we will have an unified naming with other libc/OS.
> 
> I would prefer another pair of eyes, especially on this patch.
> Dmitry, Anatoly?
> 
> 
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> David Marchand