[ovs-dev] [PATCH V2 1/1] dpdk: Add debug appctl to get malloc statistics.

Eli Britstein elibr at nvidia.com
Sun May 2 07:13:47 UTC 2021


New appctl 'dpdk/get-malloc-stats' implemented to get result of
'rte_malloc_dump_stats()' function.

Could be used for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Eli Britstein <elibr at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Salem Sol <salems at nvidia.com>
---
 NEWS                 |  2 ++
 lib/dpdk-unixctl.man |  2 ++
 lib/dpdk.c           | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 95cf922aa..705baa90d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Post-v2.15.0
      * New option '--no-record-hostname' to disable hostname configuration
        in ovsdb on startup.
      * New command 'record-hostname-if-not-set' to update hostname in ovsdb.
+   - DPDK:
+     * New debug appctl command 'dpdk/get-malloc-stats'.
 
 
 v2.15.0 - 15 Feb 2021
diff --git a/lib/dpdk-unixctl.man b/lib/dpdk-unixctl.man
index 2d6d576f2..a0d1fa2ea 100644
--- a/lib/dpdk-unixctl.man
+++ b/lib/dpdk-unixctl.man
@@ -10,5 +10,7 @@ list of words separated by spaces: a word can be either a logging \fBlevel\fR
 \fBnotice\fR, \fBinfo\fR or \fBdebug\fR) or a \fBpattern\fR matching DPDK
 components (see \fBdpdk/log-list\fR command on \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8)) separated
 by a colon from the logging \fBlevel\fR to apply.
+.IP "\fBdpdk/get-malloc-stats\fR"
+Prints the heap information statistics about DPDK malloc.
 .RE
 .
diff --git a/lib/dpdk.c b/lib/dpdk.c
index 319540394..a22de66eb 100644
--- a/lib/dpdk.c
+++ b/lib/dpdk.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <rte_cpuflags.h>
 #include <rte_errno.h>
 #include <rte_log.h>
+#include <rte_malloc.h>
 #include <rte_memzone.h>
 #include <rte_version.h>
 
@@ -356,6 +357,33 @@ dpdk_unixctl_log_set(struct unixctl_conn *conn, int argc, const char *argv[],
     unixctl_command_reply(conn, NULL);
 }
 
+static void
+dpdk_unixctl_get_malloc_stats(struct unixctl_conn *conn,
+                              int argc OVS_UNUSED,
+                              const char *argv[] OVS_UNUSED,
+                              void *aux OVS_UNUSED)
+{
+    char *response = NULL;
+    FILE *stream;
+    size_t size;
+
+    stream = open_memstream(&response, &size);
+    if (!stream) {
+        response = xasprintf("Unable to open memstream: %s.",
+                             ovs_strerror(errno));
+        unixctl_command_reply_error(conn, response);
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    rte_malloc_dump_stats(stream, NULL);
+
+    fclose(stream);
+
+    unixctl_command_reply(conn, response);
+out:
+    free(response);
+}
+
 static bool
 dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config)
 {
@@ -525,6 +553,8 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config)
                              dpdk_unixctl_mem_stream, rte_log_dump);
     unixctl_command_register("dpdk/log-set", "{level | pattern:level}", 0,
                              INT_MAX, dpdk_unixctl_log_set, NULL);
+    unixctl_command_register("dpdk/get-malloc-stats", "", 0, 0,
+                             dpdk_unixctl_get_malloc_stats, NULL);
 
     /* We are called from the main thread here */
     RTE_PER_LCORE(_lcore_id) = NON_PMD_CORE_ID;
-- 
2.28.0.2311.g225365fb51



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