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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: dpdk 2.0.0: Issue mapping mempool into guest using
 IVSHMEM
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:27:07 +0100
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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:32:37AM +0200, Mauricio V=E1squez wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> I'm trying to map a mempool into a guest using the IVSHMEM library but =
the
> mempool is not visible from the guest.
>=20
> The code I'm running is quite simple, on the host I run a primary DPDK
> process that creates the mempool, creates a metadata file and then adds=
 the
> mempool to it.

Can you perhaps try using the ivshmem example application with DPDK to st=
art with
and see if you can reproduce your issue with that?

Regards,
/Bruce

>=20
> The code is:
> ...
> int main(int argc, char * argv[])
> {
>     int retval =3D 0;
>=20
>     /* Init EAL, parsing EAL args */
>     retval =3D rte_eal_init(argc, argv);
>     if (retval < 0)
>         return -1;
>=20
>     char cmdline[PATH_MAX] =3D {0};
>=20
>     struct rte_mempool *packets_pool;
>     //Create mempool
>     packets_pool =3D rte_mempool_create(
>         "packets",
>         NUM_PKTS,
>         MBUF_SIZE,
>         CACHE_SIZE,                    //This is the size of the mempoo=
l
> cache
>         sizeof(struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private),
>         rte_pktmbuf_pool_init,
>         NULL,
>         rte_pktmbuf_init,
>         NULL,
>         rte_socket_id(),
>         0 /*NO_FLAGS*/);
>=20
>     if (packets_pool =3D=3D NULL)
>         rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,"Cannot init the packets pool\n");
>=20
>     //Create metadata file
>     if (rte_ivshmem_metadata_create(metadata_name) < 0)
>         rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot create metadata file\n");
>=20
>     //Add mempool to metadata file
>     if(rte_ivshmem_metadata_add_mempool(packets_pool, metadata_name) < =
0)
>         rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot add mempool metadata file\n");
>=20
>     //Get qemu command line
>     if (rte_ivshmem_metadata_cmdline_generate(cmdline, sizeof(cmdline),
>             metadata_name) < 0)
>         rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Failed generating command line for qemu=
\n");
>=20
>     RTE_LOG(INFO, APP, "Command line for qemu: %s\n", cmdline);
>     save_ivshmem_cmdline_to_file(cmdline);
>=20
>     //Avoids the application closes
>     char x =3D getchar();
>     (void) x;
>     return 0;
> }
>=20
> When I run it I can see clearly that the memzone is added:
>=20
> EAL: Adding memzone 'MP_packets' at 0x7ffec0e8c1c0 to metadata vm_1
> EAL: Adding memzone 'RG_MP_packets' at 0x7ffec0d8c140 to metadata vm_1
> APP: Command line for qemu: -device
> ivshmem,size=3D2048M,shm=3Dfd:/dev/hugepages/rtemap_0:0x0:0x40000000:/d=
ev/zero:0x0:0x3fffc000:/var/run/.dpdk_ivshmem_metadata_vm_1:0x0:0x4000
>=20
> I run the modified version of QEMU provided by dpdk-ovs using the comma=
nd
> line generated by the host application, then in the guest I run an even
> simpler application:
>=20
> ...
> void mempool_walk_f(const struct rte_mempool *r, void * arg)
> {
>     RTE_LOG(INFO, APP, "Mempool: %s\n", r->name);
>     (void) arg;
> }
>=20
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     int retval =3D 0;
>=20
>     if ((retval =3D rte_eal_init(argc, argv)) < 0)
>         return -1;
>=20
>     argc -=3D retval;
>     argv +=3D retval;
>=20
>     struct rte_mempool * packets;
>=20
>     packets =3D rte_mempool_lookup("packets");
>=20
>     if(packets =3D=3D NULL)
>     {
>         RTE_LOG(ERR, APP, "Failed to find mempool\n");
>     }
>=20
>     RTE_LOG(INFO, APP, "List of mempool: \n");
>     rte_mempool_walk(mempool_walk_f, NULL);
>=20
>     return 0;
> }
> ...
>=20
> I can see in the application output that the mem zones that were added =
are
> found:
>=20
> EAL: Found memzone: 'RG_MP_packets' at 0x7ffec0d8c140 (len 0x100080)
> EAL: Found memzone: 'MP_packets' at 0x7ffec0e8c1c0 (len 0x3832100)
>=20
> But, the rte_mempool_lookup function returns NULL.
> Using the rte_mempool_walker the program only prints a memzone called
> log_history.
>=20
> Do you have any suggestion?
>=20
> Thank you very much for your help.