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From: "Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
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Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] Unlinking hugepage backing file after initialiation
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Unlinking hugepage backing file after initialiation
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On 10/5/2015 9:20 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:=0A=
> But really, people should just use VFIO.=0A=
Not sure if the app crashes, kernel a) unmap b) tears down IOMMU, if=0A=
other app still has chance to allocate the same memory between step a=0A=
and step b.=0A=
Need to check whether memory are bound to huge page files after allocated.=
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