The kernel fills new allocated (huge) pages with zeros.
DPDK just has to touch the pages to trigger the allocation.
Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
index 0de75cd..af823dc 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl,
if (orig) {
hugepg_tbl[i].orig_va = virtaddr;
- memset(virtaddr, 0, hugepage_sz);
+ memset(virtaddr, 0, 8);
}
else {
hugepg_tbl[i].final_va = virtaddr;
@@ -592,9 +592,6 @@ remap_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl,
struct hugepage_info *hpi)
}
}
- /* zero out the whole segment */
- memset(hugepg_tbl[page_idx].final_va, 0, total_size);
-
page_idx++;
}
--
2.5.0
