@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ ABI Changes
 * eal: EAL library ABI version was changed due to previously announced work on
        supporting external memory in DPDK. Structure ``rte_memseg_list`` now has
        a new flag indicating whether the memseg list refers to external memory.
+       Structure ``rte_malloc_heap`` now has a ``heap_name`` string member.
 
 Removed Items
 -------------

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 /* Number of free lists per heap, grouped by size. */
 #define RTE_HEAP_NUM_FREELISTS  13
+#define RTE_HEAP_NAME_MAX_LEN 32
 
 /* dummy definition, for pointers */
 struct malloc_elem;

@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ struct malloc_heap {
 	unsigned alloc_count;
 	size_t total_size;
 	unsigned int socket_id;
+	char name[RTE_HEAP_NAME_MAX_LEN];
 } __rte_cache_aligned;
 
 #endif /* _RTE_MALLOC_HEAP_H_ */

@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ malloc_add_seg(const struct rte_memseg_list *msl,
 	malloc_heap_add_memory(heap, found_msl, ms->addr, len);
 
 	heap->total_size += len;
-	heap->socket_id = msl->socket_id;
 
 	RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "Added %zuM to heap on socket %i\n", len >> 20,
 			msl->socket_id);

@@ -1020,6 +1019,22 @@ int
 rte_eal_malloc_heap_init(void)
 {
 	struct rte_mem_config *mcfg = rte_eal_get_configuration()->mem_config;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY) {
+		/* assign names to default DPDK heaps */
+		for (i = 0; i < rte_socket_count(); i++) {
+			struct malloc_heap *heap = &mcfg->malloc_heaps[i];
+			char heap_name[RTE_HEAP_NAME_MAX_LEN];
+			int socket_id = rte_socket_id_by_idx(i);
+
+			snprintf(heap_name, sizeof(heap_name) - 1,
+					"socket_%i", socket_id);
+			strlcpy(heap->name, heap_name, RTE_HEAP_NAME_MAX_LEN);
+			heap->socket_id = socket_id;
+		}
+	}
+
 
 	if (register_mp_requests()) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Couldn't register malloc multiprocess actions\n");

@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ rte_malloc_dump_stats(FILE *f, __rte_unused const char *type)
 		malloc_heap_get_stats(heap, &sock_stats);
 
 		fprintf(f, "Heap id:%u\n", heap_id);
+		fprintf(f, "\tHeap name:%s\n", heap->name);
 		fprintf(f, "\tHeap_size:%zu,\n", sock_stats.heap_totalsz_bytes);
 		fprintf(f, "\tFree_size:%zu,\n", sock_stats.heap_freesz_bytes);
 		fprintf(f, "\tAlloc_size:%zu,\n", sock_stats.heap_allocsz_bytes);