[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:29 PM Steve Capper <Steve.Capper at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 10:37:20AM +0000, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > > > VPP usages in-memory option. So, VPP on ARM with kernel 5.2 wont' work
> > > without this patch.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have been looking at the changes in the linux kernel.
> > > Can you pinpoint at the commit that changed this in 5.2?
> > >
> > > I can see a change in the code, but in 5.0, or maybe something changed in the
> > > configuration.
> >
> > [Hemant] I am not aware of exact patch, which changed the behavior. May be Honnappa/Steve can help here.
> >
>
> All the possible hugetlb sizes being advertised was added in v5.0 by:
> a21b0b78eaf7 arm64: hugetlb: Register hugepages during arch init
>
> (Some more recent patches changed the constants used but the logic
> remained the same).

Ah, thanks for confirming :-).


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David Marchand