From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
stable@dpdk.org, Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>,
Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] app/testpmd: fix port socket ID with NUMA disabled
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 09:10:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260702161244.363233-2-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702161244.363233-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
When NUMA support is disabled, mbuf pools are created on
SOCKET_ID_ANY but port->socket_id is still set to 0 (or
--socket-num). Pool lookup is by name, and the name embeds the
socket id the pool was created with, so every lookup that does not
go through the one workaround in start_port() misses:
- the per-lcore pool assignment in init_config() leaves
fwd_lcores[]->mbp NULL, so "testpmd --no-numa
--forward-mode=txonly" crashes with a NULL dereference in
pkt_burst_transmit();
- the per-segment and multi-mempool lookups in rx_queue_setup()
fall back to the first pool, so buffer split fails when a later
segment needs a larger mbuf
(e.g. --mbuf-size=314,978 --rxpkts=186,978);
- the interactive "port <id> rxq|txq <id> setup" command cannot
find a pool.
The --socket-num option is also ignored for pool allocation since
the offending commit.
Fix this at the source instead of adding another workaround at a
lookup site: make port->socket_id hold the same socket id the
pools are created and named with. Add uma_socket_id() returning
the pool socket key used when NUMA support is disabled
(--socket-num if given, otherwise SOCKET_ID_ANY) and use it for
pool creation, port->socket_id and the per-lcore pool fallback.
The workaround in start_port() is then unnecessary.
Passing SOCKET_ID_ANY to rte_eth_rx/tx_queue_setup() is allowed by
the ethdev API and matches the cross-NUMA intent of the offending
commit.
Fixes: 835fd4893a31 ("app/testpmd: support cross-NUMA allocations")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Reported-by: Maayan Kashani <mkashani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
index fcd8a90967..b5dca03047 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
@@ -1729,6 +1729,17 @@ init_config_port_offloads(portid_t pid, uint32_t socket_id)
}
}
+/*
+ * Socket id that mbuf pools are created (and named) with when NUMA
+ * support is disabled: --socket-num if given, otherwise SOCKET_ID_ANY.
+ */
+static unsigned int
+uma_socket_id(void)
+{
+ return socket_num == UMA_NO_CONFIG ?
+ (unsigned int)SOCKET_ID_ANY : socket_num;
+}
+
static void
init_config(void)
{
@@ -1778,8 +1789,7 @@ init_config(void)
socket_id = socket_ids[0];
}
} else {
- socket_id = (socket_num == UMA_NO_CONFIG) ?
- 0 : socket_num;
+ socket_id = uma_socket_id();
}
/* Apply default TxRx configuration for all ports */
init_config_port_offloads(pid, socket_id);
@@ -1823,7 +1833,7 @@ init_config(void)
mempools[i] = mbuf_pool_create
(mbuf_data_size[i],
nb_mbuf_per_pool,
- SOCKET_ID_ANY, i);
+ uma_socket_id(), i);
}
}
@@ -1841,7 +1851,8 @@ init_config(void)
rte_lcore_to_socket_id(fwd_lcores_cpuids[lc_id]));
if (mbp == NULL)
- mbp = mbuf_pool_find_first(0);
+ mbp = mbuf_pool_find_first(numa_support ?
+ 0 : uma_socket_id());
fwd_lcores[lc_id]->mbp = mbp;
#ifdef RTE_LIB_GSO
/* initialize GSO context */
@@ -1920,10 +1931,7 @@ init_fwd_streams(void)
}
}
else {
- if (socket_num == UMA_NO_CONFIG)
- port->socket_id = 0;
- else
- port->socket_id = socket_num;
+ port->socket_id = uma_socket_id();
}
}
@@ -3153,8 +3161,7 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)
} else {
struct rte_mempool *mp =
mbuf_pool_find_first
- ((numa_support ? port->socket_id :
- (unsigned int)SOCKET_ID_ANY));
+ (port->socket_id);
if (mp == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,
"Failed to setup RX queue: No mempool allocation on the socket %d\n",
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-02 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 13:07 [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix multi-pool Rx setup with --no-NUMA Maayan Kashani
2026-07-02 16:10 ` [PATCH 0/4] app/testpmd: fix socket id handling with NUMA disabled Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-02 16:10 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-07-02 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] app/testpmd: consolidate port socket ID computation Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-02 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] app/testpmd: display any socket ID as text Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-02 16:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] app/testpmd: report reason when queue setup command fails Stephen Hemminger
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