[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] mem: support using memfd segments for in-memory mode

[Jerin Jacob]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:59:55 +0100
> From: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> CC: tiwei.bie at intel.com, ray.kinsella at intel.com, zhihong.wang at intel.com,
>  maxime.coquelin at redhat.com, kuralamudhan.ramakrishnan at intel.com
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] mem: support using memfd segments for
>  in-memory mode
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7
> 
> 
> Enable using memfd-created segments if supported by the system.
> 
> This will allow having real fd's for pages but without hugetlbfs
> mounts, which will enable in-memory mode to be used with virtio.
> 
> The implementation is mostly piggy-backing on existing real-fd
> code, except that we no longer need to unlink any files or track
> per-page locks in single-file segments mode, because in-memory
> mode does not support secondary processes anyway.
> 
> We move some checks from EAL command-line parsing code to memalloc
> because it is now possible to use single-file segments mode with
> in-memory mode, but only if memfd is supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c |   6 +-
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memalloc.c | 265 ++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> +static inline uint32_t
> +bsf64(uint64_t v)
> +{
> +       return (uint32_t)__builtin_ctzll(v);
> +}
> +
> +static inline uint32_t
> +log2_u64(uint64_t v)
> +{
> +       if (v == 0)
> +               return 0;
> +       v = rte_align64pow2(v);
> +       return bsf64(v);
> +}
> +

Can we move this to lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_common.h?
It has already rte_log2_u32()