Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 19/21] app/testpmd: add support for external memory

2018-10-01 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
Hi Bernard, Thanks for your review! Comments inline. + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, + "mp-alloc %s invalid - must be: " + "native, anon or xmem\n", Should xmemhuge be ad

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 19/21] app/testpmd: add support for external memory

2018-10-01 Thread Iremonger, Bernard
Hi Anatoly, > -Original Message- > From: Burakov, Anatoly > Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 1:56 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo ; Wu, Jingjing > ; Iremonger, Bernard ; > Mcnamara, John ; Kovacevic, Marko > ; laszlo.madara...@ericsson.com; > laszlo.vadke...@ericsson.com; andras.kov..

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 19/21] app/testpmd: add support for external memory

2018-10-01 Thread Anatoly Burakov
Currently, mempools can only be allocated either using native DPDK memory, or anonymous memory. This patch will add two new methods to allocate mempool using external memory (regular or hugepage memory), and add documentation about it to testpmd user guide. It adds a new flag "--mp-alloc", with fo