[PATCH v9 1/2] dts: Change hugepage runtime config to 2MB Exclusively
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jun 20 03:55:55 CEST 2024
10/06/2024 17:20, Nicholas Pratte:
> You may specify the optional hugepage configuration in the DTS config file.
> If you do, DTS will take care of configuring hugepages,
> - overwriting your current SUT hugepage configuration.
> + overwriting your current SUT hugepage configuration. Configuration of hugepages via DTS
> + allows only for allocation of 2MB hugepages, as doing so prevents accidental/over
> + allocation of hugepage sizes not recommended during runtime due to
> + contiguous memory space requirements. Thus, if you require hugepage
> + sizes not equal to 2MB, then this configuration must be done outside of the DTS framework.
Lines must be broken logically, example: after a dot or comma.
>
> * System under test configuration
>
> @@ -453,11 +457,11 @@ _`Build target`
> **Example**: ``ccache``
> ==================== =================================================================
>
> -_`hugepages`
> - *mapping* – hugepages described as:
> +_`hugepages_2mb`
> + *mapping* – hugepages_2mb described as:
>
> ==================== ================================================================
> - ``amount`` *integer* – The amount of hugepages to configure.
> + ``number_of`` *integer* – The number of 2MB hugepages to configure.
The rename to "number_of" belongs to the next commit.
>
> Hugepage size will be the system default.
> ``force_first_numa`` (*optional*, defaults to ``false``) – If ``true``, it forces the
> @@ -570,7 +574,7 @@ involved in the testing. These can be defined with the following mappings:
> | | |
> | | The number of the memory channels to use. |
> +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> - | ``hugepages`` | (*optional*) See `hugepages`_. If unset, hugepages won't be configured |
> + | ``hugepages_2mb`` | (*optional*) See `hugepages`_. If unset, 2MB hugepages won't be configured |
The link needs to be changed to hugepages_2mb here.
There is an error in CI while generating doc.
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