[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2]xen:reserve memory at installing dom0_mm kernel module

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu May 29 11:47:44 CEST 2014


> The patch changes the way of reserving memory in Dom0 driver. It will
> reserve memory at installing rte_dom0_mm.ko kernel module instead of
> requesting memory dynamically during DPDK application startup. Meanwhile,
> now driver requests memory size of 4M once first, if it failed, and request
> memory size of 2M once. The main reasons we do these changes as follows:
> 
> First, to reduce the impact of inceasing in memory fragment after system run
> a long time. Second, to reduce number of memory segment
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu at intel.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

Applied for version 1.7.0.

Thanks
-- 
Thomas


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