[dpdk-dev] Huge ring allocation

> [2016-08-25T17:52:26+0530]: "Keith Wiles" (keith-wiles): ,[ keith-wiles ] | Another issue sometimes is huge pages are allocated after the system | has booted, which means you need to assign the number of huge pages very | early in the boot process. This means adding a line in the sysctr

[dpdk-dev] Huge ring allocation

Regards, Keith > On Aug 25, 2016, at 1:05 AM, Gregory Etelson wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a DPDK process that creates pktmbuf pool with 2_000_000 objects > In CentOS 6.x x86-64, ring size of this pool is 16MB > 8 2MB hugepages required to hold such ring. Have you try to use 1G huge pages, is

[dpdk-dev] Huge ring allocation

Hello, I have a DPDK process that creates pktmbuf pool with 2_000_000 objects In CentOS 6.x x86-64, ring size of this pool is 16MB 8 2MB hugepages required to hold such ring. In some cases, hugepages are too fragmented and there are no 8 contiguous hugepages for the ring. As the result, the proce