Re: [PATCH] eal: allow swapping of malloc heaps

2023-09-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:27:03 +0100 Bruce Richardson wrote: > The external memory functions in DPDK allow the addition of externally > access memory to malloc heaps, but with one major restriction - the > memory must be allocated to an application-created heap, not one of the > standard DPDK heaps

[PATCH] eal: allow swapping of malloc heaps

2023-09-15 Thread Bruce Richardson
The external memory functions in DPDK allow the addition of externally access memory to malloc heaps, but with one major restriction - the memory must be allocated to an application-created heap, not one of the standard DPDK heaps for a NUMA node. This restriction makes it difficult - if not impos