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malloc: fix documentation for realloc

Message ID a7fefd2eb6cf6ffb8346e032b4f0cdac69fd5e35.1550849324.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series malloc: fix documentation for realloc |

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Commit Message

Burakov, Anatoly Feb. 22, 2019, 3:29 p.m. UTC 
  The documentation for rte_realloc claims that the resized area
will always reside on the same NUMA node. This is not actually
the case - while *resized* area will be on the same NUMA node,
if resizing the area is not possible, then the memory will be
reallocated using rte_malloc(), which can allocate memory on
another NUMA node, depending on which lcore rte_realloc() was
called from and which NUMA nodes have memory available.

Fix the API doc to match the actual code of rte_realloc().

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thomas Monjalon March 27, 2019, 11:03 a.m. UTC | #1 
22/02/2019 16:29, Anatoly Burakov:
> The documentation for rte_realloc claims that the resized area
> will always reside on the same NUMA node. This is not actually
> the case - while *resized* area will be on the same NUMA node,
> if resizing the area is not possible, then the memory will be
> reallocated using rte_malloc(), which can allocate memory on
> another NUMA node, depending on which lcore rte_realloc() was
> called from and which NUMA nodes have memory available.
> 
> Fix the API doc to match the actual code of rte_realloc().
> 
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
index 54a12467a..e0be13ca3 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@  rte_calloc(const char *type, size_t num, size_t size, unsigned align);
 /**
  * Replacement function for realloc(), using huge-page memory. Reserved area
  * memory is resized, preserving contents. In NUMA systems, the new area
- * resides on the same NUMA socket as the old area.
+ * may not reside on the same NUMA node as the old one.
  *
  * @param ptr
  *   Pointer to already allocated memory