[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/ppc: fix secondary process to map hugepages in correct order

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Tue Mar 22 12:36:19 CET 2016


Sergio, your help is required here.
Thanks

2016-03-17 10:35, gowrishankar:
> Could this patch be reviewed please.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gowrishankar
> 
> On Monday 07 March 2016 07:43 PM, Gowrishankar wrote:
> > From: Gowri Shankar <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> > For a secondary process address space to map hugepages from every segment of
> > primary process, hugepage_file entries has to be mapped reversely from the
> > list that primary process updated for every segment. This is for a reason that,
> > in ppc64, hugepages are sorted for decrementing addresses.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++----------
> >   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)




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