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> From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 3:34 AM
> To: Harman Kalra <hka...@marvell.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>;
> david.march...@redhat.com; m...@ashroe.eu; tho...@monjalon.net
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] malloc: introduce malloc is ready API
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> 2021-10-20 01:01 (UTC+0300), Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> > 2021-10-20 00:05 (UTC+0530), Harman Kalra:
> > [...]
> > > static unsigned
> > > check_hugepage_sz(unsigned flags, uint64_t hugepage_sz) { @@
> > > -1328,6 +1330,7 @@ rte_eal_malloc_heap_init(void) {
> > > struct rte_mem_config *mcfg = rte_eal_get_configuration()-
> >mem_config;
> > > unsigned int i;
> > > + int ret;
> > > const struct internal_config *internal_conf =
> > > eal_get_internal_configuration();
> > >
> > > @@ -1369,5 +1372,16 @@ rte_eal_malloc_heap_init(void)
> > > return 0;
> >
> > A secondary process exits here...
> >
> > > /* add all IOVA-contiguous areas to the heap */
> > > - return rte_memseg_contig_walk(malloc_add_seg, NULL);
> > > + ret = rte_memseg_contig_walk(malloc_add_seg, NULL);
> > > +
> > > + if (ret == 0)
> > > + malloc_ready = true;
> >
> > ...and never knows that malloc is ready.
> > But malloc is always ready for a secondary process.
>
> That is, before returning 0 above for a secondary process malloc_ready
> should be set unconditionally.
Yes, thanks for catching this, I will fix it V5.
