12/09/2017 15:08, Eelco Chaudron: > Call the mlockall() function, to attempt to lock all of its process > memory into physical RAM, and preventing the kernel from paging any > of its memory to disk. > > When using testpmd for performance testing, depending on the code path > taken, we see a couple of page faults in a row. These faults effect > the overall drop-rate of testpmd. On Linux the mlockall() call will > prefault all the pages of testpmd (and the DPDK libraries if linked > dynamically), even without LD_BIND_NOW.
Does it work on FreeBSD? Is there any drawback? Do we need to add an option for it?
