Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/9] Dynamic memzones

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2015-07-15 17:32, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
> Current implemetation allows reserving/creating memzones but not the opposite
> (unreserve/free). This affects mempools and other memzone based objects.
> 
> From my point of view, implementing free functionality for memzones would look
> like malloc over memsegs.
> Thus, this approach moves malloc inside eal (which in turn removes a circular
> dependency), where malloc heaps are composed of memsegs.
> We keep both malloc and memzone APIs as they are, but memzones allocate its
> memory by calling malloc_heap_alloc.
> Some extra functionality is required in malloc to allow for boundary constrained
> memory requests.
> In summary, currently malloc is based on memzones, and with this approach
> memzones are based on malloc.

Applied, thanks for the big rework.