[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] mempool: fix comments for no contiguous flag
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Wed Sep 28 15:59:29 CEST 2016
Fixes: ce94a51ff05c ("mempool: add flag for removing phys contiguous constraint")
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
---
lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
index 7a9cc3a..e7a10e0 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h
@@ -798,6 +798,10 @@ rte_mempool_free(struct rte_mempool *mp);
* Add a virtually and physically contiguous memory chunk in the pool
* where objects can be instanciated.
*
+ * If the given physical address is unknown (paddr = RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR),
+ * the chunk doesn't need to be physically contiguous (only virtually),
+ * and allocated objects may span two pages.
+ *
* @param mp
* A pointer to the mempool structure.
* @param vaddr
--
2.7.4
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