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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] malloc: fix documentation for
	realloc
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:03:30 +0100
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22/02/2019 16:29, Anatoly Burakov:
> The documentation for rte_realloc claims that the resized area
> will always reside on the same NUMA node. This is not actually
> the case - while *resized* area will be on the same NUMA node,
> if resizing the area is not possible, then the memory will be
> reallocated using rte_malloc(), which can allocate memory on
> another NUMA node, depending on which lcore rte_realloc() was
> called from and which NUMA nodes have memory available.
> 
> Fix the API doc to match the actual code of rte_realloc().
> 
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied, thanks