The TX queue requires IOVA contiguous QPL memory. So, we still need memzone code for TX queues.
Regards, Praveen On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 7:51 PM Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:46:35 -0800 > Joshua Washington <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Praveen Kaligineedi <[email protected]> > > > > Allocating QPL for an RX queue might fail if enough contiguous IOVA > > memory cannot be allocated. However, the only requirement for QPL > > for RX is that each 4K buffer be IOVA contiguous, not the entire > > QPL. Therefore, use malloc to allocate 4K buffers if the allocation > > using memzone fails. > > > > Signed-off-by: Praveen Kaligineedi <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Joshua Washington <[email protected]> > > --- > > Why keep the memzone code? rte_malloc and memzone are both coming from > huge pages. Is there any advantage to memzone for what you are doing? > > Better to not have two potential allocation paths to test.
