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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	 Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: allow hugetlbfs sub-directories
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:29:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zttR2aCee8V6mYdAMPab+Z7XMVoB6eNph_ZpUFrkXqdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210708105958.526656-1-john.levon@nutanix.com>

On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:00 PM John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com> wrote:
>
> get_hugepage_dir() was implemented in such a way that a --huge-dir
> option had to exactly match the mountpoint, but there's no reason for
> this restriction. Fix the implementation to allow a sub-directory within
> a suitable hugetlbfs mountpoint to be specified, preferring the closest
> match.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>

This change in EAL hugetlbfs discovery is too dangerous to be taken after -rc1.

Could you give some usecases/examples on why this change is needed?
Updating the documentation and the unit test also seem necessary.


-- 
David Marchand


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-22 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-10 21:05 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " John Levon
2021-06-25 10:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RESEND] " John Levon
2021-07-06  9:43   ` David Marchand
2021-07-07 20:06   ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-07-07 21:58     ` John Levon
2021-07-08  9:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " John Levon
2021-07-08  9:36       ` John Levon
2021-07-08 10:59     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " John Levon
2021-07-15 22:37       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2021-07-22 20:29       ` David Marchand [this message]
2021-07-22 21:06         ` John Levon
2021-07-23  7:29           ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-09 11:24             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " John Levon
2021-08-09 13:45               ` Jerin Jacob
2021-08-17 20:05               ` John Levon
2021-10-12 12:38                 ` David Marchand
2021-10-12 16:05                   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linux: " John Levon
2021-10-12 19:03                     ` David Marchand
2021-10-12 19:58                       ` John Levon

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