From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com (mail-wm0-f66.google.com [74.125.82.66]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F2A1BB11 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2018 02:18:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id v131-v6so8479441wma.1 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:18:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=broadcom.com; s=google; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=L7bdbHdu+NETus5zbZYlKil2VJCQ7jAOAYE29qs8pBI=; b=Hlwg6QAg6SaZyggsm5Ja4Znm6Fsp1CRiPPns8OV8xU8k9247Ha2/zJU3MPjAUxpp8v Gj7g2qPddThZdM5nrKYn+BlNiAzHTtg/W+jgwgvvPTy+FmWEcSwVqGHWFGgapR4XR6VM u6YmAbXAIhIypTwYLdLw730/PU39r9zdOCyFc= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=L7bdbHdu+NETus5zbZYlKil2VJCQ7jAOAYE29qs8pBI=; b=VpYky+h35N/wYsBAWHvbowHtGU63IoUquS/tN9Zh4a3kRKioj74gNdBaZCiTFwZq1p BMnM1/zZ9Br63IoliH0T3FqZvKhHQSPG+gbvDXXx6/k7sS3xq9La8umzmI4bvJb4IIH6 mH8R9TkIanj6l7PccSqesDB/4hl8oyv9aXCTTIYu19J6QKTJ+oMWoN2zOnKrqqx02OCU J+aQxebWgtMzrU9JQdOZCvUtdoI8fE7M3MOIo3VndGJf/Kne5RazdyYgyRZs+C/AOykM ZlaVn5Ejy38nDrctw6+OTN+nbV8Cf7pphXPPgyKj1OBMZxx3/5CZQXhegoJJKLa+WiW1 EO7A== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E1kStUjnNit5INVB47s7n4HAHw+E7rpWIISOWArqRlu+FpunBvT a7xqcWvMCmlnxoEm6uRvP8eUMN89 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKJr1jzR/pNvSciAhCuXHmUuULtFd7v7zWU7FH+AVoXBtDb8peemoWcraabwnWbWo8iPXG9V9w== X-Received: by 2002:a50:bf4f:: with SMTP id g15-v6mr1083642edk.283.1528244315057; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.136.13.65] ([192.19.228.250]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h2-v6sm2473028edq.6.2018.06.05.17.18.32 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:18:34 -0700 (PDT) To: "Burakov, Anatoly" , Srinath Mannam Cc: Ajit Khaparde , dev@dpdk.org References: <20180328045120.40098-1-ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com> <76474922-b2ad-dfcd-d62b-f605ec47d2e6@intel.com> From: Scott Branden Message-ID: <9f258ff5-8442-8d06-0deb-c6a7013a7ddf@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:18:29 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <76474922-b2ad-dfcd-d62b-f605ec47d2e6@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add request to map reserved physical memory 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: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:18:35 -0000 Hi Anatoly, On 18-04-27 09:49 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: > On 27-Apr-18 5:30 PM, Scott Branden wrote: >> Hi Anatoly, >> >> We'd appreciate your input so we can come to a solution of supporting >> the necessary memory allocations? >> > > Hi Scott, > > I'm currently starting to work on a prototype that will be at least > RFC'd (if not v1'd) during 18.08 timeframe. Basically, the idea is to > create/destroy named malloc heaps dynamically, and allow user to > request memory from them. You may then mmap() whatever you want and > create a malloc heap out of it. > > Does that sound reasonable? > Is the plan still to have a patch for 18.08? Thanks,  Scott