[dpdk-users] Should ''shmget" not be used to consume hugepages in DPDK?

[Byonggon Chun]

Hi all.
I'm Kubernetes contributors and I'm working to make container isolation of
hugepages that allows us to set hugepages limit per container cgroup.
(At this point, limits are set on pod level cgroup even though we asked
hugepages as the container level resource)

I tore down testPMD and some parts of DPDK lib and I got a question after i
found there is no usage of "shmget" in DPDK.

My question is that Should "shmget" not be used to consume hugepages in
DPDK?
And here is following questions:
1) If we don't have to use "shmget", Why? Does it affect performance?
2) If I use "shmget" to get hugepages, should I call "mlock" syscall for it?

For more details, as I know there are three ways to consume hugepages in
kubernetes.
1) shmget with SHM_HUGETLB
2) mmap with hugetlbs filebacking
3) mmap with MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB

And I found that testPMD calls mlock syscall when it maps an anonymous
hugepages or external allocated hugepages.
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/924e55fb340623f03fdf2ff7fbcfd78819d1db25/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c#L896
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/924e55fb340623f03fdf2ff7fbcfd78819d1db25/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c#L916

Thanks.