[PATCH v14 0/6] introduce memarea library

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 6/13/2023 10:50 AM, fengchengwen wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> On 2023/6/12 21:53, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 2/9/2023 6:36 AM, Chengwen Feng wrote:
>>> The memarea library is an allocator of variable-size object which based
>>> on a memory region. The main features are as follows:
>>>
>>> - The memory region can be initialized from the following memory
>>>    sources:
>>>    1. HEAP: e.g. invoke rte_malloc_socket.
>>>    2. LIBC: e.g. invoke posix_memalign.
>>>    3. Another memarea: it can be from another memarea.
>>>
>>> - It supports MT-safe as long as it's specified at creation time.
>>>
>>> Note:
>>> a) The memarea is oriented towards the application layer, which could
>>> provides 'region-based memory management' [1] function.
>>> b) The eal library also provide memory zone/heap management, but these
>>> are tied to huge pages management.
>>>
>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
>>>
>>> Chengwen Feng (6):
>>>    memarea: introduce memarea library
>>>    test/memarea: support memarea test
>>>    memarea: support alloc and free API
>>>    test/memarea: support alloc and free API test
>>>    memarea: support dump API
>>>    test/memarea: support dump API test
>>>
>>

Hi,

 From my understanding, this library is not intended to support 
secondary process use cases?

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Thanks,
Anatoly