[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mem: warn if address hint is not respected

[Jonas Pfefferle1]

"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote on 11/07/2017 02:54:24
PM:

> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org, Jonas Pfefferle <jpf at zurich.ibm.com>,
jianfeng.tan at intel.com
> Date: 11/07/2017 02:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mem: warn if address hint is not
respected
>
> On 06-Nov-17 8:26 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 31/10/2017 10:08, Jonas Pfefferle:
> >> Print a warning if the --base-virtaddr hint is not respected
> >> since this might lead to problems when mapping memory in
> >> the secondary process.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jonas Pfefferle <jpf at zurich.ibm.com>
> >
> > Anatoly, please review this patch.
> > It does not seem to fix something, so it is candidate for 18.02.
> >
>
> For some reason my Thunderbird ate the original email, so i'll reply to
> this one.
>
> One nitpick would be that we're calling get_virtual_area many times and
> it would probably be a good idea to make pagesize static and call
> sysconf only once. Otherwise,

We should address this in a separate patch and introduce a pagesize
function
for everyone to use. sysconf is used like this all over the place.

>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Anatoly
>