On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:13:28 +0100 Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 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? What side effects? Either it is zero or it is not. Only some broken architecture would have an issue.
