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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: linhaifeng <haifeng.lin@huawei.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] support free hugepages
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7123524.3JOL5xGJtY@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414561659-7408-1-git-send-email-haifeng.lin@huawei.com>

2014-10-29 13:47, linhaifeng:
> rte_eal_hugepage_free() is used for unlink all hugepages.If you want to
> free all hugepages you must make sure that you have stop to use it,and you
> must call this function before exit process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: linhaifeng <haifeng.lin@huawei.com>

Thanks for raising the need.
There is a discussion in the thread of the first version of this patch.
Neil suggests an automatic clean-up with hugepage refcounting.
It seems to be a good idea.

So this patch won't be integrated as is.

-- 
Thomas

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29  5:47 linhaifeng
2014-10-29  6:14 ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29  6:40   ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-29  8:04     ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29  8:15       ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-30  3:17 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-30 15:32 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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