> -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 12:37 AM > To: Harris, James R; Thomas Monjalon; users at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org; > Richardson, Bruce > Cc: Verkamp, Daniel > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-users] rte_zmalloc() returning non-zeroed > memory on FreeBSD > > On 15/08/2016 18:23, Harris, James R wrote: > >
<snip> > > The problem is that the FreeBSD contigmem driver does not re-zero the > huge > > pages each time they are mmap'd - they are only zeroed when contigmem > > initially loads. I will push a patch for this shortly. > > So that is the case where we run the app more than once, right? > I missed that, I only ran it once. Correct - it works OK the first time. The problem only occurs if you run the app more than once (unless you unload and reload contigmem before running the app a second time). -Jim
