[dpdk-dev] DPDK 17.11.4 (Madvise)Transparent Huge pages

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 02-Jan-19 3:31 PM, chetan bhasin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using DPDK 17.11.4 version . Do anybody have idea that DPDK is using
> benefit of Transparent huge-pages in case of Madvise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chetan Bhasin
> 

Hi,

DPDK does not use MADVISE flags to allocate its hugepages - it allocates 
hugepages explicitly [1] [2].

[1] 
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c#n367
[2] 
http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c#n336

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Thanks,
Anatoly