Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Revert "mem: allocate in reverse to reduce fragmentation"

2018-07-26 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
On 26-Jul-18 10:18 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: 24/07/2018 14:21, Anatoly Burakov: This reverts commit 179f916e88e4a0fdd5ad4d20e226771d3d271c41. A few regressions with virtio/vhost have been discovered, due to the strong dependency of virtio/vhost on the underlying memory layout. Specifically, vi

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Revert "mem: allocate in reverse to reduce fragmentation"

2018-07-26 Thread Thomas Monjalon
24/07/2018 14:21, Anatoly Burakov: > This reverts commit 179f916e88e4a0fdd5ad4d20e226771d3d271c41. > > A few regressions with virtio/vhost have been discovered, due to the > strong dependency of virtio/vhost on the underlying memory layout. > Specifically, virtio/vhost share all memory pages start

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Revert "mem: allocate in reverse to reduce fragmentation"

2018-07-24 Thread Anatoly Burakov
This reverts commit 179f916e88e4a0fdd5ad4d20e226771d3d271c41. A few regressions with virtio/vhost have been discovered, due to the strong dependency of virtio/vhost on the underlying memory layout. Specifically, virtio/vhost share all memory pages starting from the beginning of the segment, while