Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] mem: use address hint for mapping hugepages

2018-10-05 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
On 05-Oct-18 1:06 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: Linux kernel uses a really high address as starting address for serving mmaps calls. If there exist addressing limitations and IOVA mode is VA, this starting address is likely too high for those devices. However, it is possible to use a lower address

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] mem: use address hint for mapping hugepages

2018-10-05 Thread Alejandro Lucero
Linux kernel uses a really high address as starting address for serving mmaps calls. If there exist addressing limitations and IOVA mode is VA, this starting address is likely too high for those devices. However, it is possible to use a lower address in the process virtual address space as with 64