[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/2] lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling

[Zhihong Wang]

The kernel fills new allocated (huge) pages with zeros.
DPDK just has to touch the pages to trigger the allocation.

Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
index 0de75cd..af823dc 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ map_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl,
 
 		if (orig) {
 			hugepg_tbl[i].orig_va = virtaddr;
-			memset(virtaddr, 0, hugepage_sz);
+			memset(virtaddr, 0, 8);
 		}
 		else {
 			hugepg_tbl[i].final_va = virtaddr;
@@ -592,9 +592,6 @@ remap_all_hugepages(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi)
 			}
 		}
 
-		/* zero out the whole segment */
-		memset(hugepg_tbl[page_idx].final_va, 0, total_size);
-
 		page_idx++;
 	}
 
-- 
2.5.0