> -----Original Message----- > From: Burakov, Anatoly > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:19 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pat...@intel.com> > Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] mem: improve memory preallocation on 32-bit > > Previously, if we couldn't preallocate VA space on 32-bit for one page size, > we > simply bailed out, even though we could've tried allocating VA space with > other page sizes. > > For example, if user had both 1G and 2M pages enabled, and has asked DPDK > to allocate memory on both sockets, DPDK would've tried to allocate VA > space for 1x1G page on both sockets, failed and never tried again, even > though it could've allocated the same 1G of VA space for 512x2M pages. > > Fix this by retrying with different page sizes if VA space reservation failed. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > --- > lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_memory.c | 42 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >
Tested-by: Jananee Parthasarathy <jananeex.m.parthasara...@intel.com>
