[ovs-dev] [PATCH v8 03/13] dp-packet: Fix allocated size on DPDK init.
Eelco Chaudron
echaudro at redhat.com
Mon Jun 18 11:26:21 UTC 2018
On 11 Jun 2018, at 18:21, Tiago Lam wrote:
> When enabled with DPDK OvS deals with two types of packets, the ones
> coming from the mempool and the ones locally created by OvS - which
> are
> copied to mempool mbufs before output. In the latter, the space is
> allocated from the system, while in the former the mbufs are allocated
> from a mempool, which takes care of initialising them appropriately.
>
> In the current implementation, during mempool's initialisation of
> mbufs,
> dp_packet_set_allocated() is called from dp_packet_init_dpdk() without
> considering that the allocated space, in the case of multi-segment
> mbufs, might be greater than a single mbuf. Furthermore, given that
> dp_packet_init_dpdk() is on the code path that's called upon mempool's
> initialisation, a call to dp_packet_set_allocated() is redundant,
> since
> mempool takes care of initialising it.
>
> To fix this, dp_packet_set_allocated() is no longer called after
> initialisation of a mempool, only in dp_packet_init__(), which is
> still
> called by OvS when initialising locally created packets.
>
LGTM,
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tiago Lam <tiago.lam at intel.com>
> ---
> lib/dp-packet.c | 3 +--
> lib/dp-packet.h | 2 +-
> lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/dp-packet.c b/lib/dp-packet.c
> index 443c225..782e7c2 100644
> --- a/lib/dp-packet.c
> +++ b/lib/dp-packet.c
> @@ -99,9 +99,8 @@ dp_packet_use_const(struct dp_packet *b, const void
> *data, size_t size)
> * buffer. Here, non-transient ovs dp-packet fields are initialized
> for
> * packets that are part of a DPDK memory pool. */
> void
> -dp_packet_init_dpdk(struct dp_packet *b, size_t allocated)
> +dp_packet_init_dpdk(struct dp_packet *b)
> {
> - dp_packet_set_allocated(b, allocated);
> b->source = DPBUF_DPDK;
> }
>
> diff --git a/lib/dp-packet.h b/lib/dp-packet.h
> index 82e45ad..4c104b6 100644
> --- a/lib/dp-packet.h
> +++ b/lib/dp-packet.h
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void dp_packet_use(struct dp_packet *, void *,
> size_t);
> void dp_packet_use_stub(struct dp_packet *, void *, size_t);
> void dp_packet_use_const(struct dp_packet *, const void *, size_t);
>
> -void dp_packet_init_dpdk(struct dp_packet *, size_t allocated);
> +void dp_packet_init_dpdk(struct dp_packet *);
>
> void dp_packet_init(struct dp_packet *, size_t);
> void dp_packet_uninit(struct dp_packet *);
> diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> index 468ab36..f546507 100644
> --- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> +++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ ovs_rte_pktmbuf_init(struct rte_mempool *mp
> OVS_UNUSED,
> {
> struct rte_mbuf *pkt = _p;
>
> - dp_packet_init_dpdk((struct dp_packet *) pkt, pkt->buf_len);
> + dp_packet_init_dpdk((struct dp_packet *) pkt);
> }
>
> static int
> --
> 2.7.4
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