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

[chetan bhasin]

Thanks Anatoly

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 16:01 Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Anatoly
>