[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] mem: unmap unneeded space

[Thomas Monjalon]

02/05/2018 23:00, Thomas Monjalon:
> 30/04/2018 14:50, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:21:43PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> > > When we ask to reserve virtual areas, we usually include
> > > alignment in the mapping size, and that memory ends up
> > > being wasted. Wasting a gigabyte of VA space while trying to
> > > reserve one gigabyte is pretty expensive on 32-bit, so after
> > > we're done mapping, unmap unneeded space.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Notes:
> > >     v2:
> > >     - Split fix for size_t overflow into separate patch
> > >     - Improve readability of unmapping code
> > >     - Added comment explaining why unmapping is done
> > > 
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> I am not confident pushing this change post-rc1.
> Please can we have more validation tests with this patch?

Any news about validation tests?