12/08/2019 11:49, David Marchand: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM Burakov, Anatoly > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08-Aug-19 8:31 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > I would suggest to restrict the change to Arm only with an ifdef, > > > in order to limit the risk for this release. > > > We can think about a dynamic hugepage scan in the next release. > > > > I don't see how this is necessary. The 3 is an arbitrary number here, > > and the ABI isn't broken as this is an internal structure. We could > > increase it to 16 for all i care, and it wouldn't make any difference to > > the rest of the code - we never populate more than we can find anyway. > > I agree on the principle. > But at the time this popped up, we were really close to the release. > It seemed a way to mitigate any unforeseen issue by limiting to the > platform that was affected.
Exactly, we were extra cautious. Please increase the value for everybody, thanks.
