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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:32:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151120083258.033e0498@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447984428-137897-3-git-send-email-zhihong.wang@intel.com>

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:53:48 -0500
Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com> wrote:

> The kernel fills new allocated (huge) pages with zeros.
> DPDK just has to touch the pages to trigger the allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>

The code is correct, and optimized.
Don't you need to update the commit message since you no longer
have to touch the pages.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-20 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-20  1:53 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] Reduce DPDK initialization time Zhihong Wang
2015-11-20  1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] lib/librte_eal: Reduce timer " Zhihong Wang
2015-11-20 16:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-11-23  1:29     ` Wang, Zhihong
2015-11-20  1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling Zhihong Wang
2015-11-20 16:32   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-11-23  1:31     ` Wang, Zhihong

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