[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/20] Support externally allocated memory in DPDK

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 23-Sep-18 10:21 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Anatoly,
> 
> 21/09/2018 18:13, Anatoly Burakov:
>> This is a proposal to enable using externally allocated memory
>> in DPDK.
> 
> About this change and previous ones, I think we may miss some
> documentation about the usage and the internal design of the DPDK
> memory allocation.
> You already updated some doc recently:
> 	http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=b31739328
> 
> This is what we have currently:
> 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#memory-segments-and-memory-zones-memzone
> 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#malloc
> 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.html
> 
> This is probably a good time to check this doc again.
> Do you think it deserves more explanations, or maybe some figures?
> 

Maybe this could be split into two sections - explanation of user-facing 
API, and explanation of its inner workings. However, I don't want for 
DPDK documentation to become my personal soapbox, so i'm open to 
suggestions on what is missing and how to organize the memory docs better :)

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Thanks,
Anatoly