[dpdk-dev] Unlinking hugepage backing file after initialiation

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Tue Sep 29 18:16:28 CEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 03:48:08PM +0000, shesha Sreenivasamurthy (shesha) wrote:
> If huge pages are allocated for the guest and if the guest crashes there may be
> a chance that the new guest may not be able to get huge pages again as some
> other guest or process on the host used it. But I am not able to understand
> memory corruption you are talking about. In my opinion, if a process using a
> piece of memory goes away, it should not re-attach to the same piece of memory
> without running a sanity check on it.

guest memory is allocated an freed by hypervisor, right?
I don't think it's dpdk's job.

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MST


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