[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/9] Dynamic memzones

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:57:04 +0100
Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com> wrote:

> Current implemetation allows reserving/creating memzones but not the opposite
> (unreserve/free). This affects mempools and other memzone based objects.
> 
> From my point of view, implementing free functionality for memzones would look
> like malloc over memsegs.
> Thus, this approach moves malloc inside eal (which in turn removes a circular
> dependency), where malloc heaps are composed of memsegs.
> We keep both malloc and memzone APIs as they are, but memzones allocate its
> memory by calling malloc_heap_alloc.
> Some extra functionality is required in malloc to allow for boundary constrained
> memory requests.
> In summary, currently malloc is based on memzones, and with this approach
> memzones are based on malloc.
> 
> v8:
>  - Rebase against current HEAD to factor for changes made by new Tile-Gx arch

Following rules in kernel. You need to fix the 32 bit build and resubmit whole
series.

Thomas, this patchset should be marked "Changes requested" in patchwork.