[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 2/2] lib/librte_eal: Remove unnecessary hugepage zero-filling

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Nov 20 17:32:58 CET 2015


On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:53:48 -0500
Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang at intel.com> wrote:

> 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>

The code is correct, and optimized.
Don't you need to update the commit message since you no longer
have to touch the pages.


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