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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Unlinking hugepage backing file after initialiation
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:50:00PM +0000, shesha Sreenivasamurthy (shesha) wrote:
> Sure. Then, is there any real reason why the backing files should not be
> unlinked ?

AFAIK qemu unlinks them already.

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