Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/9] mem: reduce memory fragmentation

11/06/2018 22:55, Anatoly Burakov: > This patchset is mostly dealing with changes fbarray, but it is > actually about reducing fragmentation in Linuxapp memalloc. > > We allocate hugepages from lower VA to higher VA. However, our > malloc heap allocates addresses from higher VA to lower VA. This >

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/9] mem: reduce memory fragmentation

This patchset is mostly dealing with changes fbarray, but it is actually about reducing fragmentation in Linuxapp memalloc. We allocate hugepages from lower VA to higher VA. However, our malloc heap allocates addresses from higher VA to lower VA. This results in a situation where, whenever new pag