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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Marco Varlese <marco.varlese@suse.com>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Problem with MBUF pool allocation
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 15:25:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170612142519.GC67396@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497276908.3084.37.camel@suse.com>

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:15:08PM +0200, Marco Varlese wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm seeing an error reported by the DPDK EAL when allocating the MBUF pools.
> 
> The error is:
> "MBUF: error setting mempool handler"
> 
> I have a multi-node NUMA system and I get the exact same error when trying to
> allocate the memory from the different nodes. 
> 
> The bootstrap parameters I use to reserve huge-pages are:
> "default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=32"
> 
> If I check the available huge-pages in my systems they look Ok (see below).
> fromm:~/:[130]# cat /proc/meminfo 
<snip>
> 
> Any idea / help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco
> 
Hi Marco,

in recent releases the mempools are now based on different mempool
drivers, rather than just being a single mempool library. So if this is
a shared library build, you may need to pass in "-d /path/to/driver"
parameter to make sure the default mempool driver is picked up by the
EAL.

Regards,
/Bruce

      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 14:25 UTC|newest]

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2017-06-12 14:15 Marco Varlese
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