[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-11-22 18:28, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:13:35 -0500
> Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > The kernel fills new allocated (huge) pages with zeros.
> > DPDK just has to populate page tables to trigger the allocation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com>
> 
> Nice, especially on slow machines or with large memory.
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

Yes very nice.
I think it's too late to integrate this change which can have some
unpredictable side effects.
Do you agree to wait for 2.3?