Do not create a shared hugepage data file if we were asked to not create any shared files.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c index 5e1810712..d7b43b5c1 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c @@ -521,7 +521,18 @@ static void * create_shared_memory(const char *filename, const size_t mem_size) { void *retval; - int fd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666); + int fd; + + /* if no shared files mode is used, create anonymous memory instead */ + if (internal_config.no_shared_files) { + retval = mmap(NULL, mem_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, + MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); + if (retval == MAP_FAILED) + return NULL; + return retval; + } + + fd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666); if (fd < 0) return NULL; if (ftruncate(fd, mem_size) < 0) { -- 2.17.0