[dpdk-dev] rte_malloc

Sergio Gonzalez Monroy sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Tue May 10 10:12:16 CEST 2016


Hi,

On 09/05/2016 18:32, Mahdi Moradmand Badie wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I had a problem regarding use the rte_malloc.
> I want to know if I want to use rte_malloc instead of malloc just mak
> change like this
> struct lcore_params *p = malloc
> <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__malloc_8h.html#afb7316a4ec228ed9b8ffc1864b03d85b>
> (sizeof(*p)); ==>
> struct lcore_params *p = rte_malloc
> <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__malloc_8h.html#afb7316a4ec228ed9b8ffc1864b03d85b>(NULL,
> sizeof(*p), 0);
> is enough ?

Yes, malloc(sizeof(*p)) has an equivalent behavior to rte_malloc(NULL, 
sizeof(*p), 0)
in the context of a DPDK application.

> Because I have problem and Segmentation fault (core dumped) ??

Could you provide more details of how to reproduce or could you try to
reproduce your problem using a very simple example like 
examples/helloworld ?

Sergio

> Thanks in advance,
>
>



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