[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add option --iso-cmem for external custom memory

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 30-Oct-19 7:50 PM, Rajesh Ravi wrote:
> Thanks Anatoly.
> Please find  inline below:
> 
> [Anatoly] vfio_mem_event_callback() is called every time memory is added 
> to a
> heap. That includes internal and external memory
> 
> [Rajesh] malloc_heap_add_external_memory() does call 
> eal_memalloc_mem_event_notify [ instead of vfio_mem_event_callback() ]
>                But, no callback function is getting called from inside 
> eal_memalloc_mem_event_notify()
>                execution flow is not entering inside following loop:
> 
> /TAILQ_FOREACH(entry, &mem_event_callback_list, next) {/
> /                 RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "Calling mem event callback 
> '%s:%p'\n",
>                           entry->name, entry->arg);
>                   entry->clb(event, start, len, entry->arg);
>                }/
> 
> Do you mean to say,  we are supposed to explicitly register a callback 
> which separately builds  iommu tables in addition to calling 
> rte_malloc_heap_memory_add()  API?

Hi,

No, the callback in VFIO should be registered automatically [1] at EAL 
initialization (or, more precisely, when default container is 
initialized). Does that not happen in your case?

[1] http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_vfio.c#n791

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly