On 22-Jan-19 4:27 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
Modern memory mode allowes to not reserve any memory by the '--socket-mem' option. i.e. it could be possible to specify zero preallocated memory like '--socket-mem 0'. Also, it should be possible to configure unlimited memory allocations by '--socket-limit 0'.Both cases are impossible now and blocks starting the DPDK application: ./dpdk-app --socket-limit 0 <...> EAL: invalid parameters for --socket-limit EAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments. Unable to initialize DPDK: Invalid argument Fixes: 6b42f75632f0 ("eal: enable non-legacy memory mode") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> ---
That's kind of an odd parameter to pass, as it is assumed that if you don't need any limitations or preallocated memory, you don't specify these flags in the first place, but OK :)
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]> -- Thanks, Anatoly
