From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Mohammad Masumi <mmasumi@gmail.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>,
"dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com" <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: RE: [dpdk-users] Memory allocation limits
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:43:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PH0PR11MB50937FDDB9CCB9D7C20BD833F7A99@PH0PR11MB5093.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1758092.NzVlmGAOTI@thomas>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:12 PM
> To: Mohammad Masumi <mmasumi@gmail.com>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> Cc: users@dpdk.org; dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; stephen@networkplumber.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Memory allocation limits
>
> 29/09/2021 12:14, Burakov, Anatoly:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > 26/09/2021 17:52, Mohammad Masumi:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I have HP server with 768GB memory 384GB in each Numa but I can't
> > > > allocate more than 64GB by rte_malloc by changing some parameters
> > > > in rte_config.h it increased to 128GB How to increase heap size?
> > >
> > > adding people Cc to help
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is intentional. In order to increase the amount of contiguous allocation
> possible to perform in DPDK, you need to adjust the following values in
> rte_config.h:
> >
> > #define RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_LIST 8192
> > #define RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_LIST 32768
> > #define RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_TYPE 32768
> > #define RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_TYPE 65536
> >
> > I do not recommend arbitrarily changing them as this is untested, but
> increasing them proportionally (e.g. multiply all of them by 2 or 4) should not
> break anything.
>
> It looks to be something to add in docs, right?
>
[[AB]]
Yes, which is why I already have 😃
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.html#memory-mapping-discovery-and-memory-reservation
There's a section on "Maximum amount of memory" there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-26 15:52 Mohammad Masumi
2021-09-29 9:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-29 10:14 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-09-29 11:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-29 12:43 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2021-09-29 12:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-04-01 20:43 Dave Sclarsky
2022-04-01 21:42 Dave Sclarsky
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