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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	Gagandeep Singh <G.Singh@nxp.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>,
	honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>,
	jerinj@marvell.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, gavin.hu@arm.com,
	konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:31:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15982978.NnXy4IA2Yx@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR0401MB25416710B44AAD881BED4D1389D40@VI1PR0401MB2541.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

07/08/2019 15:28, Hemant Agrawal:
> HI Thomas,
> 
> > > > DPDK currently is supporting maximum 3 hugepage, sizes whereas
> > > > system can support more than this e.g.
> > > > 64K, 2M, 32M and 1G.
> > >
> > > You can mention ARM platform here, and that this issue starts with
> > > kernel 5.2 (and I would try to mention this in the title as well).
> > > This is better than an annotation that will be lost.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Having these four hugepage sizes available to use by DPDK, which is
> > > > valid in case of '--in-memory' EAL option or using 4 separate mount
> > > > points for each hugepage size;
> > > > hugepage_info_init() API reports an error.
> > >
> > > Can you describe what is the impact from a user point of view rather
> > > than mentioning this internal function?
> > 
> > Yes please, we need to understand how much it is critical.
> > Should we Cc stable@dpdk.org for backport?
> > Should it be merged at the last minute in 19.08?
> 
> VPP usages in-memory option. So, VPP on ARM with kernel 5.2 wont' work without this patch. 

Do you want to send a v2 with a better explanation?

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-08  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-07 10:12 Gagandeep Singh
2019-08-07 12:00 ` David Marchand
2019-08-07 12:07   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-07 13:28     ` Hemant Agrawal
2019-08-08  7:31       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-08-12  9:43         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-12  9:49           ` David Marchand
2019-08-12 10:01             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-12 10:38             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-08  7:33       ` David Marchand
2019-08-08  9:00         ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-08-08 10:37         ` [dpdk-dev] " Hemant Agrawal
2019-08-08 12:29           ` Steve Capper
2019-08-08 12:39             ` David Marchand
2019-08-12  9:42       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-08-07 15:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-08 12:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4 for ARM platforms Gagandeep Singh
2019-08-08 12:37   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2019-08-08 15:26     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-07 12:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4 Gagandeep Singh
2019-08-07 12:53 Gagandeep Singh
2019-08-07 14:09 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-08-08  9:00 Gagandeep Singh
2019-08-08  9:22 ` David Marchand

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