[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mem: fix how to calculate space left in a hugetlbfs

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-11-12 09:38, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:17:57 +0800
> Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch enables calculating space left in a hugetlbfs.
> > There are three sources to get the information: 1. from
> > sysfs; 2. from option size specified when mount; 3. use
> > statfs. We should use the minimum one of these three sizes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
> 
> Thanks, the hugetlbfs usage up until now has been rather brute force.
> I wonder if long term it might be better to defer all this stuff
> to another library like libhugetlbfs.
>  https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs
> 
> Especially wen dealing with other architectures it might provide
> some nice abstraction.

Maybe, maybe not :)
Sergio arleady looked at it:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-July/022080.html