From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Matt Laswell <laswell@infiniteio.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Ability to/impact of running with smaller page sizes
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 11:51:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6ECDF3AB251BE4894318F4E451236978020C5C7@IRSMSX101.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+GnqAo_mytb7A=HQ7BY+XRyczazd4fpt_wTvj_R8-Zde3wGhw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Matt,
> I'm curious - is it possible in practical terms to run DPDK without hugepages?
Starting with release 1.7.0, support for VFIO was added, which allows using DPDK without hugepages at al (including RX/TX rings) via the --no-huge command-line parameter. Bear in mind though that you'll have to have IOMMU/VT-d enabled (i.e. no VM support, only host-based) and also have supported kernel version (3.6+) as well to use VFIO, the memory size will be limited to 1G, and it won't work with multiprocess. I don't have any performance figures on that unfortunately.
Best regards,
Anatoly Burakov
DPDK SW Engineer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 22:43 Matt Laswell
2014-06-30 23:42 ` Jeff Shaw
2014-07-01 8:56 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-07-01 11:06 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-07-01 11:51 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2014-07-01 12:36 ` Matt Laswell
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