From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eal/persistent: new library to hold memory region after program exit Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:41:16 +0200 Message-ID: <3774699.APpBeIyZp2@xps13> References: <1436189297-7780-1-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.com> <1436189297-7780-2-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.com> <559A91DD.9020309@cloudius-systems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE37DE6 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2015 16:42:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wgck11 with SMTP id k11so142409927wgc.0 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:42:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <559A91DD.9020309@cloudius-systems.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-07-06 17:34, Avi Kivity: > On 07/06/2015 04:28 PM, leeopop wrote: > > Some NICs use host memory region as their scratch area. > > When DPDK user applications terminate, all the memory regions are lost, > > re-initialized (memzone), which causes HW faults. > > This libraray maintains shared memory regions that is persistent across > > multiple execution and termination of user level applications. > > It also manages physically contiguous memory regions. > > > > Signed-off-by: leeopop > > > > Does dpdk accept anonymous signoffs? > > DCO usually requires a real name. Exact. We follow Linux guidelines for DCO: http://dpdk.org/dev#send