> From: Chengwen Feng [mailto:fengcheng...@huawei.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 February 2023 09.25 > > The memarea library is an allocator of variable-size object which based > on a memory region. The main features are as follows: > > - The memory region can be initialized from the following memory > sources: > 1. HEAP: e.g. invoke rte_malloc_socket. > 2. LIBC: e.g. invoke posix_memalign. > 3. Another memarea: it can be from another memarea. > > - It supports MT-safe as long as it's specified at creation time. > > Note: > a) The memarea is oriented towards the application layer, which could > provides 'region-based memory management' [1] function. > b) The eal library also provide memory zone/heap management, but these > are tied to huge pages management. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management > > Chengwen Feng (6): > memarea: introduce memarea library > test/memarea: support memarea test > memarea: support alloc and free API > test/memarea: support alloc and free API test > memarea: support dump API > test/memarea: support dump API test > > --- > v13: > * address Morten's comments.
This means: "Make debug cookies optional, controlled by RTE_LIBRTE_MEMAREA_DEBUG; disabled by default." Thank you.
