RE: [RFC] eal: allow worker lcore stacks to be allocated from hugepage memory

[Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>]

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> >> Add support for using hugepages for worker lcore stack memory.  The
> >> intent is to improve performance by reducing stack memory related TLB
> >> misses and also by using memory local to the NUMA node of each lcore.
> > This is a good idea. Have you measured any performance differences with this
> patch? What kind of benefits do you see?
> 
> The performance benefit is very application and target dependent. For
> example, a trivial test with a small memory/stack footprint would not see much
> benefit from this change.  An application with deep call stacks and/or
> significant stack and table data memory usage would benefit. We're not yet
> prepared to release specific performance delta data, but we are currently
> developing applications that benefit from this feature.
Ok, thank you. So, you do not see any improvement in L3fwd example app, correct?

> 
> All other comments will be incorporated in the next version.