From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0EEAAE8 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:49:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 27 Apr 2018 09:49:21 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.49,335,1520924400"; d="scan'208";a="36683232" Received: from aburakov-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.252.25.158]) ([10.252.25.158]) by orsmga007.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 27 Apr 2018 09:49:20 -0700 To: Scott Branden , Srinath Mannam Cc: Ajit Khaparde , dev@dpdk.org References: <20180328045120.40098-1-ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <76474922-b2ad-dfcd-d62b-f605ec47d2e6@intel.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:49:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add request to map reserved physical memory X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:49:23 -0000 On 27-Apr-18 5:30 PM, Scott Branden wrote: > Hi Anatoly, > > We'd appreciate your input so we can come to a solution of supporting > the necessary memory allocations? > Hi Scott, I'm currently starting to work on a prototype that will be at least RFC'd (if not v1'd) during 18.08 timeframe. Basically, the idea is to create/destroy named malloc heaps dynamically, and allow user to request memory from them. You may then mmap() whatever you want and create a malloc heap out of it. Does that sound reasonable? -- Thanks, Anatoly