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        "From": "Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 21.11 v2 0/3] eal: add memory pre-allocation from\n existing files",
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    "content": "Hugepage allocation from the system takes time, resulting in slow\nstartup or sporadic delays later. Most of the time spent in kernel\nis zero-filling memory for security reasons, which may be irrelevant\nin a controlled environment. The bottleneck is memory access speed,\nso for speeduup the amount of memory cleared must be reduced.\nWe propose a new EAL option --mem-file FILE1,FILE2,... to quickly\nallocate dirty pages from existing files and clean it as necessary.\nA new malloc_perf_autotest is provided to estimate the impact.\nMore details are explained in relevant patches.\n\nv2: fix CI failures\n\nDmitry Kozlyuk (2):\n  eal/linux: make hugetlbfs analysis reusable\n  app/test: add allocator performance autotest\n\nViacheslav Ovsiienko (1):\n  eal: add memory pre-allocation from existing files\n\n app/test/meson.build                          |   2 +\n app/test/test_malloc_perf.c                   | 157 +++++++++\n doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_eal_parameters.rst |  17 +\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_dynmem.c            |   6 +\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c           |  23 ++\n lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h             |   4 +\n lib/eal/common/eal_memalloc.h                 |   8 +-\n lib/eal/common/eal_options.h                  |   2 +\n lib/eal/common/malloc_elem.c                  |   5 +\n lib/eal/common/malloc_heap.h                  |   8 +\n lib/eal/common/rte_malloc.c                   |  16 +-\n lib/eal/include/rte_memory.h                  |   4 +-\n lib/eal/linux/eal.c                           |  28 ++\n lib/eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c             | 158 ++++++---\n lib/eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.h             |  39 +++\n lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c                  | 328 +++++++++++++++++-\n 16 files changed, 735 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 app/test/test_malloc_perf.c\n create mode 100644 lib/eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.h"
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