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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mem: fix how to calculate space left in a hugetlbfs
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:38:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112093826.5f287608@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447287477-49292-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com>

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:17:57 +0800
Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> wrote:

> This patch enables calculating space left in a hugetlbfs.
> There are three sources to get the information: 1. from
> sysfs; 2. from option size specified when mount; 3. use
> statfs. We should use the minimum one of these three sizes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>

Thanks, the hugetlbfs usage up until now has been rather brute force.
I wonder if long term it might be better to defer all this stuff
to another library like libhugetlbfs.
 https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs

Especially wen dealing with other architectures it might provide
some nice abstraction.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12  0:17 [PATCH] mem: fix how to calculate space left in a hugetlbfs Jianfeng Tan
2015-11-12  2:10 ` [PATCH v2] mem: " Jianfeng Tan
2015-11-12 13:14   ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2015-11-12  7:48 ` [PATCH] mem: fix how to " De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2015-11-12  1:57   ` [PATCH v2] mem: " Jianfeng Tan
2015-11-12 17:38 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-11-12 17:49   ` [PATCH] mem: fix how to " Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-18  2:42 ` [PATCH v3] mem: " Jianfeng Tan
2015-11-18 10:28   ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2015-12-21  8:34   ` Qiu, Michael

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