[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: remove single file segments related code

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan at intel.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 5:15 PM
>> To: Thomas Monjalon
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; David Marchand; Tan, Jianfeng
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: remove single file segments related code
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:50:06AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> > 2016-09-23 15:10, Yuanhan Liu:
>> > > Commit c711ccb30987 ("ivshmem: remove library and its EAL integration")
>> > > removed ivshmem support, but seems David forgot to remove the another
>> > > piece of code: code for RTE_EAL_SINGLE_FILE_SEGMENTS, which is
>> introduced
>> > > when ivshmem was firstly added.
>> >
>> > It is not a mistake. We thought it is used by container use case.
>>
>> I think no. It would help the container case a bit, but not too much I
>> would think, especially when the memory goes fragement.
>>
>> Jianfeng, IIRC, you don't use that option for container case, right?
>>
>>       --yliu
>
> No, I don't use this option for container case. As yuanhan said, it cannot provide much help for virtio_user memory region number limitation.

Ok, as said, since this feature had been introduced with ivshmem
40b966a211ab ("ivshmem: library changes for mmaping using ivshmem"),
if Sergio has nothing against this removal, I am all for removing
unused code.


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David Marchand