2021-07-16 14:08 (UTC+0300), Dmitry Kozlyuk: > Hugepage allocation from the system takes time, resulting in slow > startup or sporadic delays later. Most of the time spent in kernel > is zero-filling memory for security reasons, which may be irrelevant > in a controlled environment. The bottleneck is memory access speed, > so for speeduup the amount of memory cleared must be reduced. > We propose a new EAL option --mem-file FILE1,FILE2,... to quickly > allocate dirty pages from existing files and clean it as necessary. > A new malloc_perf_autotest is provided to estimate the impact. > More details are explained in relevant patches. > > v2: fix CI failures
Hi Anatoly, could you review please?
