[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 02/21] mem: allow memseg lists to be marked as external

[Shreyansh Jain]

On Thursday 27 September 2018 04:10 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to
> differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that
> were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such
> a property to memseg lists.
> 
> This breaks the ABI, so bump the EAL library ABI version and
> document the change in release notes. This also breaks a few
> internal assumptions about memory contiguousness, so adjust
> malloc code in a few places.
> 
> All current calls for memseg walk functions were adjusted to
> ignore external segments where it made sense.
> 
> Mempools is a special case, because we may be asked to allocate
> a mempool on a specific socket, and we need to ignore all page
> sizes on other heaps or other sockets. Previously, this
> assumption of knowing all page sizes was not a problem, but it
> will be now, so we have to match socket ID with page size when
> calculating minimum page size for a mempool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> ---
> 

Specifically for bus/fslmc perspective and generically for others:

Acked-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>