Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4

["Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

On 12-Aug-19 10:49 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> 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.
> 

Fair enough. A follow up is needed so. Frankly, i don't see the need to 
complicate things with "dynamic" stuff here - a static array of 8 or 16 
page sizes should be enough for everyone (TM).

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Thanks,
Anatoly