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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] eal: attempt multiple hugepage
	allocations at init
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:22:23 +0100
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22/02/2019 17:14, Anatoly Burakov:
> When requesting memory with ``-m`` or ``--socket-mem`` flags,
> currently the init will fail if the requested memory amount was
> bigger than any one memseg list, even if total amount of
> available memory was sufficient.
> 
> Fix this by making EAL to attempt to allocate pages multiple
> times, until we either fulfill our memory requirements, or run
> out of hugepages to allocate.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 95
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Series applied, thanks