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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/20] Support externally allocated memory
	in DPDK
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 23:21:09 +0200
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Hi Anatoly,

21/09/2018 18:13, Anatoly Burakov:
> This is a proposal to enable using externally allocated memory
> in DPDK.

About this change and previous ones, I think we may miss some
documentation about the usage and the internal design of the DPDK
memory allocation.
You already updated some doc recently:
	http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=b31739328

This is what we have currently:
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#memory-segments-and-memory-zones-memzone
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#malloc
	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/mempool_lib.html

This is probably a good time to check this doc again.
Do you think it deserves more explanations, or maybe some figures?