Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-28 Thread Yongseok Koh
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:40:59AM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote: > When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to > differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that > were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such > a property to memseg lists. > > This bre

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-27 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
On 27-Sep-18 12:12 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:38 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: On 27-Sep-18 12:03 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote: When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to differentiate bet

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-27 Thread Shreyansh Jain
On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:38 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: On 27-Sep-18 12:03 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote: When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-27 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
On 27-Sep-18 12:03 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote: When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such a p

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-27 Thread Shreyansh Jain
On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote: When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such a property to memseg lists. This breaks the ABI,

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

2018-09-27 Thread Anatoly Burakov
When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such a property to memseg lists. This breaks the ABI, so bump the EAL library ABI version and document the change in r