28/06/2018 13:41, Anatoly Burakov: > In the perfect world, it wouldn't matter how much memory was > preallocated because most of it was always going to be private > anonymous zero-page mappings for the duration of the program. > However, in practice, due to peculiarities of FreeBSD, we need > to additionally limit memory allocation there. This patch moves > the segment preallocation to EAL private functions that will be > implemented by an OS-specific EAL rather than being in the common > memory-related code. > > Since there is no support for growing/shrinking memory use at > runtime on FreeBSD anyway, this does not inhibit any functionality > but makes core dumps faster even on default settings. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > --- > > Notes: > For Linuxapp, this is 99% code move (aside from slight changes due to > code deduplication between Linuxapp EAL and old common memory code), > while for FreeBSD it's mostly code move but with changes due to > dropping 32-bit code and implementing FreeBSD-specific limits on > memory preallocation outlined in the commit.
Applied, thanks
