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eal/ppc: fix mmap for memory initialization

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On IBM POWER platform, when mapping /dev/zero file to hugepage memory
space, mmap will not respect the requested address hint. This will cause
the memory initialization for the second process fails. This patch adds
the required mmap flags to make it work. Beside this, users need to set
the nr_overcommit_hugepages to expand the VA range. When
doing the initialization, users need to set both nr_hugepages and
nr_overcommit_hugepages to the same value, like 64, 128, etc.

Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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Chao Zhu 2017-04-06 15:36:09 +05:30 committed by Thomas Monjalon
parent 2fc8e0bf04
commit 284ae3e9ff
2 changed files with 20 additions and 2 deletions
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doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
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@ -200,6 +200,12 @@ On a NUMA machine, pages should be allocated explicitly on separate nodes::
For 1G pages, it is not possible to reserve the hugepage memory after the system has booted.
On IBM POWER system, the nr_overcommit_hugepages should be set to the same value as nr_hugepages.
For example, if the required page number is 128, the following commands are used::
echo 128 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB/nr_hugepages
echo 128 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB/nr_overcommit_hugepages
Using Hugepages with the DPDK
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
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@ -331,7 +331,13 @@ get_virtual_area(size_t *size, size_t hugepage_sz)
}
do {
addr = mmap(addr,
(*size) + hugepage_sz, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
(*size) + hugepage_sz, PROT_READ,
#ifdef RTE_ARCH_PPC_64
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB,
#else
MAP_PRIVATE,
#endif
fd, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
*size -= hugepage_sz;
} while (addr == MAP_FAILED && *size > 0);
@ -1359,7 +1365,13 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_attach(void)
* use mmap to get identical addresses as the primary process.
*/
base_addr = mmap(mcfg->memseg[s].addr, mcfg->memseg[s].len,
PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd_zero, 0);
PROT_READ,
#ifdef RTE_ARCH_PPC_64
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB,
#else
MAP_PRIVATE,
#endif
fd_zero, 0);
if (base_addr == MAP_FAILED ||
base_addr != mcfg->memseg[s].addr) {
max_seg = s;