From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"Anatoly Burakov" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
"Andrew Rybchenko" <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
"Konstantin Ananyev" <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>,
"Wathsala Vithanage" <wathsala.vithanage@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] eal: increase memzone name size to 64
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:57:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921215733.404686-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
Memzone names are limited to 31 characters, and ring, mempool and
stack names lose the length of their prefixes on top of that.
A mempool name is limited to 25 characters, which leaves little room
for libraries such as rib and fib that derive names from the name
given by the application.
Increase RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE to 64. The derived ring, mempool,
stack and RCU defer queue sizes follow.
Move name out of the first cache line of struct rte_ring and
struct rte_mempool so the larger name does not push datapath
fields into another cache line. For mempool this also brings
local_cache, cache_size and ops_index into the first cache line,
where previously they were in the second. struct rte_mempool
stays 192 bytes; struct rte_ring grows by one cache line.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
lib/eal/include/rte_memzone.h | 2 +-
lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h | 8 ++++----
lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h | 5 ++---
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst
index 4b3e5d995c..380aecb5a7 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_11.rst
@@ -139,6 +139,25 @@ ABI Changes
Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
=======================================================
+* **Increased memzone maximum name size.**
+
+ ``RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE`` was increased from 32 to 64,
+ and the derived ``RTE_RING_NAMESIZE``, ``RTE_MEMPOOL_NAMESIZE``,
+ ``RTE_STACK_NAMESIZE`` and ``RTE_RCU_QSBR_DQ_NAMESIZE`` grew accordingly.
+ This impacts the following structures:
+
+ * ``struct rte_memzone`` grew by 32 bytes.
+
+ * ``struct rte_ring`` grew by one cache line,
+ and ``name`` was moved after the size fields
+ to keep the datapath fields in the first cache line.
+
+ * ``struct rte_mempool`` is unchanged in size,
+ but ``name``, ``pool_config`` and ``mz`` were moved
+ after the fields used in the datapath.
+
+ * ``struct rte_stack`` grew by one cache line.
+
Known Issues
------------
diff --git a/lib/eal/include/rte_memzone.h b/lib/eal/include/rte_memzone.h
index 5a0e1b8a15..d5c92fe0ec 100644
--- a/lib/eal/include/rte_memzone.h
+++ b/lib/eal/include/rte_memzone.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ extern "C" {
*/
struct __rte_packed_begin rte_memzone {
-#define RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE 32 /**< Maximum length of memory zone name.*/
+#define RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE 64 /**< Maximum length of memory zone name.*/
char name[RTE_MEMZONE_NAMESIZE]; /**< Name of the memory zone. */
rte_iova_t iova; /**< Start IO address. */
diff --git a/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h b/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h
index 50d958c7c6..d2ae56e49f 100644
--- a/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h
+++ b/lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h
@@ -230,13 +230,11 @@ struct __rte_cache_aligned rte_mempool_info {
* The RTE mempool structure.
*/
struct __rte_cache_aligned rte_mempool {
- char name[RTE_MEMPOOL_NAMESIZE]; /**< Name of mempool. */
union {
void *pool_data; /**< Ring or pool to store objects. */
uint64_t pool_id; /**< External mempool identifier. */
};
- void *pool_config; /**< optional args for ops alloc. */
- const struct rte_memzone *mz; /**< Memzone where pool is alloc'd. */
+ struct rte_mempool_cache *local_cache; /**< Per-lcore local cache */
unsigned int flags; /**< Flags of the mempool. */
int socket_id; /**< Socket id passed at create. */
uint32_t size; /**< Max size of the mempool. */
@@ -257,7 +255,9 @@ struct __rte_cache_aligned rte_mempool {
*/
int32_t ops_index;
- struct rte_mempool_cache *local_cache; /**< Per-lcore local cache */
+ void *pool_config; /**< optional args for ops alloc. */
+ const struct rte_memzone *mz; /**< Memzone where pool is alloc'd. */
+ char name[RTE_MEMPOOL_NAMESIZE]; /**< Name of mempool. */
uint32_t populated_size; /**< Number of populated objects. */
struct rte_mempool_objhdr_list elt_list; /**< List of objects in pool */
diff --git a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
index 6cd6ce9884..4359ca8006 100644
--- a/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
+++ b/lib/ring/rte_ring_core.h
@@ -114,14 +114,13 @@ struct rte_ring_hts_headtail {
* a problem.
*/
struct rte_ring {
- alignas(RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) char name[RTE_RING_NAMESIZE];
- /**< Name of the ring. */
- int flags; /**< Flags supplied at creation. */
+ alignas(RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) int flags; /**< Flags supplied at creation. */
const struct rte_memzone *memzone;
/**< Memzone, if any, containing the rte_ring */
uint32_t size; /**< Size of ring. */
uint32_t mask; /**< Mask (size-1) of ring. */
uint32_t capacity; /**< Usable size of ring */
+ char name[RTE_RING_NAMESIZE]; /**< Name of the ring. */
RTE_CACHE_GUARD;
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 21:57 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-09-22 10:42 ` [PATCH] eal: increase memzone name size to 64 Morten Brørup
2026-09-22 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] increase memzone name size and fix rib/fib prefixes Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-22 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] app/crypto-perf: fix asymmetric op pool name size Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-22 18:25 ` [EXTERNAL] " Akhil Goyal
2026-09-22 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] eal: increase memzone name size to 64 Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-22 15:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fib, rib: fix name prefixes Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-22 19:46 ` Medvedkin, Vladimir
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