From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eal/persistent: new library to hold memory region after program exit Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:34:05 +0300 Message-ID: <559A91DD.9020309@cloudius-systems.com> References: <1436189297-7780-1-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.com> <1436189297-7780-2-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: leeopop , dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C72E72 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2015 16:34:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wgqq4 with SMTP id q4so142298816wgq.1 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:34:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1436189297-7780-2-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.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" 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.