From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wout5-smtp.messagingengine.com (wout5-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.21]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79982B94 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:13:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C0739B; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:13:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:13:18 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=EC29ukpFQSkcw/G4QsHvUx/SaD t9FVz2nL4l2XzNIG0=; b=klfK3TlAC6rwn1R/RBnjSiD4jWrOfMFMr1+kSw22So nagufWSHDTt4kKHxGJX2O01o7+t1iUeY/KwdqiajEtS0ZjVnG1V8JjxTsdAcsZ40 E2gJNsZtzadJaBq6gtEiFo+xr3qMgP6k68sTLlJuhUt4HCWnVFws47JEWFc+CRMH w= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=EC29uk pFQSkcw/G4QsHvUx/SaDt9FVz2nL4l2XzNIG0=; b=ktAtzxoVjCIHlbAnO3ErBj aGujBfM5Q79VuaSd4HxL3RjY9dhdEAz+x83d0AJSitmiWEg+cAjlVcByia2/d4xG oY32SvcBkx/1t0sDKthZsBCAeXHrEqjkM2+HYchKrttQW56+biDShhrr2Vya3y9b HOF8nxQKMHe8S1Kdq+rSXsuDkFImexigUEAjr6ACS+c3Ul5WNKY2+d2N/a1NJESB fRE1d9q54LNBPjOWNcXTdzVYH/IJpGEnR9NpctGoQ1bl316cFsF5Jp25VWOThvba mbZwfETD1KoIrXovV3mWRRgr5ot5QWjNWV6VoMt073B5jnKWmtiXhHNpjw7SeHHQ == X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9175810276; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:13:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Anatoly Burakov Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ray.kinsella@intel.com, kuralamudhan.ramakrishnan@intel.com, louise.m.daly@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:13:14 +0200 Message-ID: <2408769.8CpHiMRGOD@xps> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/9] eal: add --in-memory option X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:13:19 -0000 13/07/2018 12:27, Anatoly Burakov: > This command-line option will cause DPDK to operate entirely in > memory and not create any shared files at runtime, including any > shared configuration or hugetlbfs files. This is useful for debug > purposes, as well as for certain use cases like containers or > automatic memory cleanup. > > Currently, this option acts as a strict superset of --no-shconf and > --huge-unlink commands. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov I would like to see some support or review for this feature.