[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] add free hugepage function

Matthew Hall mhall at mhcomputing.net
Thu Oct 30 04:23:25 CET 2014


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > 
> Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences.  You expect
> garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't really worry
> about that too much.  If you really wanted to you can register chained handlers
> for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, that seems like
> overkill.  If a program that uses shared resources terminates abnormally, its
> well understood that those shared resources may not get released properly, and
> manual intervention is required to clean them up
> 
> Neil

Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. ;)


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