[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: do deep copy while reallocate vq
Yang, Zhiyong
zhiyong.yang at intel.com
Tue Jan 16 01:57:06 CET 2018
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chen, Junjie J
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 5:15 PM
> To: Yang, Zhiyong <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>; yliu at fridaylinux.org;
> maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: do deep copy while reallocate vq
>
> Hi
>
> > > @@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ vhost_user_set_vring_num(struct virtio_net *dev,
> > > "zero copy is force disabled\n");
> > > dev->dequeue_zero_copy = 0;
> > > }
> > > + TAILQ_INIT(&vq->zmbuf_list);
> > > }
> > >
> > > vq->shadow_used_ring = rte_malloc(NULL, @@ -261,6 +262,9 @@
> > > numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
> > > int oldnode, newnode;
> > > struct virtio_net *old_dev;
> > > struct vhost_virtqueue *old_vq, *vq;
> > > + struct zcopy_mbuf *new_zmbuf;
> > > + struct vring_used_elem *new_shadow_used_ring;
> > > + struct batch_copy_elem *new_batch_copy_elems;
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > old_dev = dev;
> > > @@ -285,6 +289,33 @@ numa_realloc(struct virtio_net *dev, int index)
> > > return dev;
> > >
> > > memcpy(vq, old_vq, sizeof(*vq));
> > > + TAILQ_INIT(&vq->zmbuf_list);
> > > +
> > > + new_zmbuf = rte_malloc_socket(NULL, vq->zmbuf_size *
> > > + sizeof(struct zcopy_mbuf), 0, newnode);
> > > + if (new_zmbuf) {
> > > + rte_free(vq->zmbufs);
> > > + vq->zmbufs = new_zmbuf;
> > > + }
> >
> > You need to consider how to handle the case ( rte_malloc_socket
> > return NULL).
>
> If it failed to allocate new_zmbuf, it uses old zmbufs, so as to keep vhost
> alive.
It sounds reasonable, another question is,
for the 3 blocks of memory being allocated, If some succeed , others fails, Does it mean that
the code will run on different socket? What's the perf impact if it happens.
thanks
Zhiyong
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