[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/5] mempool: populate mempool with the page sized chunks

[Vamsi Krishna Attunuru]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 2:57 PM
> To: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; thomas at monjalon.net; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jerinj at marvell.com>; ferruh.yigit at intel.com; anatoly.burakov at intel.com;
> arybchenko at solarflare.com; Kiran Kumar Kokkilagadda
> <kirankumark at marvell.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/5] mempool: populate mempool with the
> page sized chunks
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:42:48AM +0530, vattunuru at marvell.com wrote:
> > From: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> >
> > Patch adds a routine to populate mempool from page aligned and page
> > sized chunks of memory to ensure memory objs do not fall across the
> > page boundaries. It's useful for applications that require physically
> > contiguous mbuf memory while running in IOVA=VA mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar K <kirankumark at marvell.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> 
> Do you confirm that this patch could be removed if this patchset is applied?
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> I'll try to address Andrew's comments.

Yes, this patch will be redundant and can be removed once the above patchset is applied.

Thanks
Vamsi

 > 
> Thanks,
> Olivier