2015-11-22 18:28, Stephen Hemminger: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:13:35 -0500 > Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com> wrote: > > > The kernel fills new allocated (huge) pages with zeros. > > DPDK just has to populate page tables to trigger the allocation. > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com> > > Nice, especially on slow machines or with large memory. > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Yes very nice. I think it's too late to integrate this change which can have some unpredictable side effects. Do you agree to wait for 2.3?
