[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 4/6] mem: use address hint for mapping hugepages
Eelco Chaudron
echaudro at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 13:15:34 CEST 2018
On 4 Jul 2018, at 14:53, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> Linux kernel uses a really high address as starting address for
> serving mmaps calls. If there exists addressing limitations and
> IOVA mode is VA, this starting address is likely too high for
> those devices. However, it is possible to use a lower address in
> the process virtual address space as with 64 bits there is a lot
> of available space.
>
> This patch adds an address hint as starting address for 64 bits
> systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero at netronome.com>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Looks good to me!
Cheers,
Eelco
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com>
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