Thanks Sergio. It helped. There was a mistake the way I was linking dpdk with my application.
Thanks, Rohit -----Original Message----- From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy [mailto:sergio.gonzalez.mon...@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 1:59 PM To: Rohit Saini (Stellus) <rohit.sa...@stellus.com>; 'dev@dpdk.org' <dev@dpdk.org> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Use rte_malloc in application On 03/08/2017 07:12, Rohit Saini (Stellus) wrote: > With below code, I am getting this warning. > > warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size > [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] > > my_node_t *data_ptr = (my_node_t *) rte_malloc(NULL, > sizeof(my_node_t), 0); As far as I can see, the syntax looks correct. How are you building/linking your application? I would suggest to modify the DPDK examples/helloworld application to just do a simple rte_malloc as a first step. Thanks, Sergio > Thanks, > Rohit > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Rohit Saini > (Stellus) > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 11:28 AM > To: 'dev@dpdk.org' <dev@dpdk.org> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Use rte_malloc in application > > Hi, > I have a use case in my application where I need to implement my own memory > manager, rather than doing malloc/free everytime to kernel. > Instead of writing my own memory manager, I am thinking to use dpdk > rte_malloc or rte_mempool. Please let me know if this is a good idea. > > Also, > > my_node_t *data_ptr = (my_node_t *) (uintptr_t) rte_malloc(NULL, > sizeof(my_node_t), 0); > > data_ptr is pointing to some invalid memory. Am I doing anything wrong here? > > > Thanks, > Rohit
