From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Sarthak Ray <sarthak_ray@outlook.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Mempool allocation fails on first boot; but succeeds after system reboot
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:39:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160817083948.5024edec@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MAXPR01MB031505ED7323F2170688600E9F140@MAXPR01MB0315.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:10:35 +0000
Sarthak Ray <sarthak_ray@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using dpdk-2.1.0 for a platform appliance, where I am facing issue with mempool allocation.
>
> On the firstboot of the newly installed appliance, my dpdk application is not coming up saying failure in mbuf allocation on socket 0. But once I reboot the system, it comes up without any issues.
How big is the huge page memory on the system?
On initial boot, the free memory is usually contiguous after a lot of programs
run it gets fragmented. You can configure grub command line to reserve huge pages
before userspace starts; see kernel documentation Documentation/vm/hugepages.txt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-17 15:39 UTC|newest]
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2016-08-17 13:10 Sarthak Ray
2016-08-17 15:39 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-08-18 13:42 ` Sarthak Ray
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