[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix file locking in EAL memory

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Apr 24 22:34:54 CEST 2018


On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:05:10 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 24/04/2018 19:25, Burakov, Anatoly:
> > On 24-Apr-18 5:32 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:54:21 +0100
> > > Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > >> One of the ways to work around this was using OFD locks,
> > >> but they are only supported on kernels 3.15+,  
> > > 
> > > Maybe time to move to next LTS kernel (3.16)?
> > >   
> > 
> > I'm all for it, but it's not my call to make :(  
> 
> I am in favor of upgrading kernel requirements.
> The discussion already started few months ago:
> 	https://dpdk.org/patch/34778
> 
> We just need to consider how to support the latest versions
> of distributions Debian, Ubuntu, SLES and RHEL.

Does anyone have a quick map for major distributions, current stable versions?


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