Re: [dpdk-users] Invalid NUMA socket when running helloworld on VM linux

[Dheeraj Dang <dheerajdang138@gmail.com>]

Yes, it makes sense to ignore this log
when *the platform does not support NUMA or kernel is compiled without NUMA
support. *
Regards
Dheeraj Dang


On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:02 AM Changchun Zhang <changchun.zhang@oracle.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Dheeraj, but looks like the system is not allowing me to change
> it.
>
> I saw in preivous thread that it is suggested to ignore this log at all.
>
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/users/2017-December/002742.html
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> Does it make sense?
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>
> Changchun (Alex)
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> *From:* Dheeraj Dang [mailto:dheerajdang138@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 03, 2019 4:58 AM
> *To:* Changchun Zhang <changchun.zhang@oracle.com>
> *Cc:* users@dpdk.org
> *Subject:* Re: [dpdk-users] Invalid NUMA socket when running helloworld
> on VM linux
>
>
>
> Hi Changchun,
>
> You can set numa_node using this command
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> *echo 0 > /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/<pci_id>/numa_node (if numa node is 0)*
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> *echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/<pci_id>/numa_node (if numa node is 1)*In
> logs, you are seeing its invalid value i.e -1.
>
> Regards
>
> Dheeraj Dang
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>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 4:22 AM Changchun Zhang <changchun.zhang@oracle.com>
> wrote:
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>
> Hi Gurus,
>
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>
> I launched a virtual box based linux on my windows, and my PC is thinkpad
> T480.
>
> After configured the huge pages as number of 2MBs and the cpu number as 4
> on the vm linux, I build DPDK and run the example of hellowworld but get
> the below output, in which I saw the "invalid NUMA socket". What does it
> mean and does it matter, as I see the hello from core # is also printed.
>
>
>
> [~ build]$ sudo ./helloworld
>
> EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
>
> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
>
> EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
>
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>
> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
>
> EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
>
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e net_e1000_em
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> hello from core 1
>
> hello from core 2
>
> hello from core 3
>
> hello from core 0
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