- /* don't try reserving with 0 size if we were asked to reserve
- * IOVA-contiguous memory.
- */
- if (min_chunk_size < (size_t)mem_size && mz == NULL) {
- /* not enough memory, retry with the biggest zone we
- * have
- */
- mz = rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(mz_name, 0,
- mp->socket_id, mz_flags, align);
- }
+ if (mz == NULL && rte_errno != ENOMEM)
+ break;
+
+ max_alloc_size = RTE_MIN(max_alloc_size,
+ (size_t)mem_size) / 2;
+ } while (mz == NULL && max_alloc_size >= min_chunk_size);
+