Re: [dpdk-dev] Is contiguous hugepages memory still required in latest DPDKs?

2017-03-23 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
On 03/22/2017 02:08 PM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: On 03/21/2017 04:41 PM, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote: The DPDK will still try to allocate contiguous hugepages. Since DPDK v16.07 the mempool library is able to create a mempool with multiple chunks of memory. You would still have the contig memory

Re: [dpdk-dev] Is contiguous hugepages memory still required in latest DPDKs?

2017-03-22 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
"fair zone allocator policy" commits, and in my case need to pre-allocate 2x or even 3x more hugepages now. Regards, Ruslan Sergio On 21/03/2017 14:20, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: Hi, Recently after moving to 4.4 Linux kernel we found that DPDK v16.07 can't find physically cont

[dpdk-dev] Is contiguous hugepages memory still required in latest DPDKs?

2017-03-21 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
Hi, Recently after moving to 4.4 Linux kernel we found that DPDK v16.07 can't find physically contiguous chunk of hugepages memory. I've tracked this down to kernel commits 81c0a2bb515f ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") fff4068cba48 ("mm: page_alloc: revert NUMA aspect of fair all