[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-23 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-23 10:29, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio: > On 23/07/2015 09:12, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2015-07-23 08:34, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio: > >> On 22/07/2015 11:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > >>> Sergio, > >>> > >>> As the maintainer of memory allocation, would you consider using > >>> libhugetlbfs in D

[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-23 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
Hi Sergio >Then there is the issue with multi-process; because they return a file > descriptor while >unlinking the file, we would need some sort of Inter-Process That's kind of what VFIO does for multiprocess, so you may want to look at that in case you decide to get down that route :)

[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-23 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
On 23/07/2015 09:12, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2015-07-23 08:34, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio: >> On 22/07/2015 11:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>> Sergio, >>> >>> As the maintainer of memory allocation, would you consider using >>> libhugetlbfs in DPDK for Linux? >>> It may simplify a part of our memory a

[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-23 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-23 08:34, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio: > On 22/07/2015 11:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > Sergio, > > > > As the maintainer of memory allocation, would you consider using > > libhugetlbfs in DPDK for Linux? > > It may simplify a part of our memory allocator and avoid some potential > > bugs whic

[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-23 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
On 22/07/2015 11:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Sergio, > > As the maintainer of memory allocation, would you consider using > libhugetlbfs in DPDK for Linux? > It may simplify a part of our memory allocator and avoid some potential > bugs which would be already fixed in the dedicated lib. I did have

[dpdk-dev] libhugetlbfs

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas Monjalon
Sergio, As the maintainer of memory allocation, would you consider using libhugetlbfs in DPDK for Linux? It may simplify a part of our memory allocator and avoid some potential bugs which would be already fixed in the dedicated lib.