[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Revert "mem: allocate in reverse to reduce fragmentation"
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jul 26 11:18:13 CEST 2018
24/07/2018 14:21, Anatoly Burakov:
> This reverts commit 179f916e88e4a0fdd5ad4d20e226771d3d271c41.
>
> A few regressions with virtio/vhost have been discovered, due to the
> strong dependency of virtio/vhost on the underlying memory layout.
> Specifically, virtio/vhost share all memory pages starting from the
> beginning of the segment, while the patch above made it so that the
> memory is always allocated from the top of VA space, not from the
> bottom.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Applied with this fun title:
mem: revert reversed allocation
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