[dpdk-dev] reg : adding grub entry with hugepages.

Richardson, Bruce bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Sep 1 11:22:07 CEST 2014


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Zhang, Jerry
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 9:52 AM
> To: Anand S Angadi; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] reg : adding grub entry with hugepages.
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Here is an example to enable both 1G and 2M in kernel parameters.
> 
> default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8 hugepagesz=2M
> hugepages=512

Just FYI: the default_hugepagesz part is not necessary, so I'd generally leave it out and let the system default be 2MB as normal. You can always get a hugetlbfs mount of a particular hugepage size by passing the pagesize= parameter when doing the mount.

/Bruce


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