[PATCH v4 1/7] eal: add static per-lcore memory allocation facility

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2024-09-17 18:29, Konstantin Ananyev wrote:
> 
>>>> +#define LCORE_BUFFER_SIZE (RTE_MAX_LCORE_VAR * RTE_MAX_LCORE)
>>>> +
>>>> +static void *lcore_buffer;
>>>> +static size_t offset = RTE_MAX_LCORE_VAR;
>>>> +
>>>> +static void *
>>>> +lcore_var_alloc(size_t size, size_t align)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	void *handle;
>>>> +	void *value;
>>>> +
>>>> +	offset = RTE_ALIGN_CEIL(offset, align);
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (offset + size > RTE_MAX_LCORE_VAR) {
>>>> +#ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_WINDOWS
>>>> +		lcore_buffer = _aligned_malloc(LCORE_BUFFER_SIZE,
>>>> +					       RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
>>>> +#else
>>>> +		lcore_buffer = aligned_alloc(RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
>>>> +					     LCORE_BUFFER_SIZE);
>>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> Don't remember did that question already arise or not:
>>> For debugging and health-checking purposes - would it make sense to link all
>>> lcore_buffer values into a linked list?
>>> So user/developer/some tool can walk over it to check that provided handle value
>>> is really a valid lcore_var, etc.
>>>
>>
>> At least you could add some basic statistics, like the total size
>> allocated my lcore variables, and the number of variables.
> 
> My thought was more about easing debugging/health-cheking,
> but yes, some stats can also be collected.
> 

Statistics could be used for debugging and maybe some kind of 
rudimentary sanity check.

Maintaining per-variable state is not necessarily something you want to 
do, at least not close (spatially) to the lcore variable values.

In summary, I'm yet to form an opinion what, if anything, we should have 
here to help debugging. To avoid bloat, I would suggest this being 
deferred up to a point where we have more experience with lcore variables.

>> One could also add tracing.
>>
>>>> +		RTE_VERIFY(lcore_buffer != NULL);
>>>> +
>>>> +		offset = 0;
>>>> +	}
>>>> +