Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/3] eal: add memory pre-allocation from existing files

2021-10-11 Thread Thomas Monjalon
11/10/2021 10:56, Dmitry Kozlyuk: > v6: fix copyright line (Thomas), add SPDX header for the new test file > (BTW, why didn't the CI complain in previous versions?) Probably because the CI doesn't run the script devtools/check-spdx-tag.sh Cc c...@dpdk.org to add this test.

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/3] eal: add memory pre-allocation from existing files

2021-10-11 Thread Dmitry Kozlyuk
Hugepage allocation from the system takes time, resulting in slow startup or sporadic delays later. Most of the time spent in kernel is zero-filling memory for security reasons, which may be irrelevant in a controlled environment. The bottleneck is memory access speed, so for speeduup the amount of