My team and I have encountered a problem where allocation of a mempool larger than 1GB (== 1 Hugepage) fails.

We are in a multi-process environment, and the `rte_mempool_create` happens in the secondary process.

Sometimes the allocation succeeds but after some successes (for me specifically, two) the following occurs:

the secondary process segfaults on `malloc_elem_can_hold`, inside a stack starting from `rte_mempool_create`.

Restarting the secondary process does not work as it is stuck on `EAL: Probing VFIO support`, and restarting

the main process is the only option.

Has anyone had this problem, or knows any possible solution?

Thanks!