vapi: init clib mem heap on connect if needed

Change-Id: Id45a3a37dd77771289622314406dccf50b64f04d
Signed-off-by: Klement Sekera <ksekera@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi.c b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi.c
index 1a0fdbb627a..70382d17bbb 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi.c
+++ b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi.c
@@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ vapi_connect (vapi_ctx_t ctx, const char *name,
     {
       return VAPI_EINVAL;
     }
+  if (!clib_mem_get_per_cpu_heap () && !clib_mem_init (0, 1024 * 1024 * 32))
+    {
+      return VAPI_ENOMEM;
+    }
   ctx->requests_size = max_outstanding_requests;
   const size_t size = ctx->requests_size * sizeof (*ctx->requests);
   void *tmp = realloc (ctx->requests, size);