On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 22:20:34 +0100
Antonio Di Bacco <a.dibacco.ks@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a system with two numa sockets. Each numa socket has 8GB of RAM.
> I reserve a total of 6 hugepages (1G).
>
> When I try to create a mempool (API rte_mempool_create) of 530432 mbufs
> (each one with 9108 bytes) I get a ENOMEM error.
>
> In theory this mempool should be around 4.8GB and the hugepages are enough
> to hold it.
> Why is this failing ?

This is likely becaus the hugepages have to be contiguous and
the kernel has to that many free pages (especially true with 1G pages).
Therefore it is recommended to
configure and reserve huge pages on kernel command line during boot.