On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > On 08-Aug-19 8:31 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > I would suggest to restrict the change to Arm only with an ifdef, > > in order to limit the risk for this release. > > We can think about a dynamic hugepage scan in the next release. > > > > I don't see how this is necessary. The 3 is an arbitrary number here, > and the ABI isn't broken as this is an internal structure. We could > increase it to 16 for all i care, and it wouldn't make any difference to > the rest of the code - we never populate more than we can find anyway.
I agree on the principle. But at the time this popped up, we were really close to the release. It seemed a way to mitigate any unforeseen issue by limiting to the platform that was affected. -- David Marchand
