Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/2] Balanced allocation of hugepages

[Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>]

On 26/06/2017 11:44, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> So, what do you think about this version?
> Is it ready for merge or some additional changes needed?

I was just having another look at it and was wondering if we should 
re-set the old policy instead of DEFAULT?

Also noticed that we probably should increase essential_memory by 
hugepage_sz in case of SIGBUS? I think there is an issue if we have more 
than one size.

Thanks,
Sergio

> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
>
> On 21.06.2017 13:08, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> Version 7:
>> 	* RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES --> RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES
>>
>> Version 6:
>> 	* Configuration option RTE_LIBRTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES
>> 	  returned. Enabled by default for x86, ppc and thunderx.
>>
>> Version 5:
>> 	* Fixed shared build. (Automated build test will fail
>> 	  anyway because libnuma-devel not installed on build servers)
>>
>> Version 4:
>> 	* Fixed work on systems without NUMA by adding check for NUMA
>> 	  support in kernel.
>>
>> Version 3:
>> 	* Implemented hybrid schema for allocation.
>> 	* Fixed not needed mempolicy change while remapping. (orig = 0)
>> 	* Added patch to enable VHOST_NUMA by default.
>>
>> Version 2:
>> 	* rebased (fuzz in Makefile)
>>
>> Ilya Maximets (2):
>>    mem: balanced allocation of hugepages
>>    config: enable vhost numa awareness by default
>>
>>   config/common_base                           |   1 +
>>   config/common_linuxapp                       |   3 +
>>   config/defconfig_arm-armv7a-linuxapp-gcc     |   4 +
>>   config/defconfig_arm64-armv8a-linuxapp-gcc   |   4 +
>>   config/defconfig_arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc |   4 +
>>   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile         |   3 +
>>   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c     | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   mk/rte.app.mk                                |   3 +
>>   8 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>