[PATCH 19.11] malloc: fix allocation with unknown socket ID

Ilyes Ben Hamouda ilyes.ben_hamouda at 6wind.com
Fri Dec 10 11:33:34 CET 2021


[ upstream commit 770d41bf33090462319c765c86a4c1979dc2a148 ]

When using rte_malloc() from a thread which is not bound to a numa
socket (the typical case is a control thread, but it can also happen
on a dataplane thread if its cpu affinity is on cores attached to
several sockets), the used heap is the one from numa socket 0, which
may not have available memory.

Fix this by selecting the first socket which has available memory.

Note: malloc_get_numa_socket() is only used from one .c file, so move
it there, and remove the inline keyword.

Fixes: b94580d6887e ("malloc: avoid unknown socket id")

Signed-off-by: Ilyes Ben Hamouda <ilyes.ben_hamouda at 6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.h | 11 -----------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
index bd5065698d..90a46767ea 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
@@ -691,6 +691,25 @@ malloc_heap_alloc_on_heap_id(const char *type, size_t size,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static unsigned int
+malloc_get_numa_socket(void)
+{
+	unsigned int socket_id = rte_socket_id();
+	unsigned int idx;
+
+	if (socket_id != (unsigned int)SOCKET_ID_ANY)
+		return socket_id;
+
+	/* for control threads, return first socket where memory is available */
+	for (idx = 0; idx < rte_socket_count(); idx++) {
+		socket_id = rte_socket_id_by_idx(idx);
+		if (internal_config.socket_mem[socket_id] != 0)
+			return socket_id;
+	}
+
+	return rte_socket_id_by_idx(0);
+}
+
 void *
 malloc_heap_alloc(const char *type, size_t size, int socket_arg,
 		unsigned int flags, size_t align, size_t bound, bool contig)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.h
index 772736b53f..dfd57e6a56 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.h
@@ -37,17 +37,6 @@ struct malloc_heap {
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-static inline unsigned
-malloc_get_numa_socket(void)
-{
-	unsigned socket_id = rte_socket_id();
-
-	if (socket_id == (unsigned)SOCKET_ID_ANY)
-		return 0;
-
-	return socket_id;
-}
-
 void *
 malloc_heap_alloc(const char *type, size_t size, int socket, unsigned int flags,
 		size_t align, size_t bound, bool contig);
-- 
2.30.2



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