[dpdk-dev] vhost-switch example: huge memory need and CRC off-loading issue

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Sun Aug 9 10:56:26 CEST 2015


2015-08-08 09:17, Jan Kiszka:
> On 2015-08-08 02:39, Ouyang, Changchun wrote:
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jan Kiszka
> >> - MAX_QUEUES of 512 causes pretty high memory need for the application
> >>   (something between 1 and 2G) - is that really needed? I'm now running
> >>   with 32, and I'm able to get away with 256M. Can we tune this
> >>   default?
> > 
> > Don't think we need change default just because your platform is 32,
> > Well, my platform is 128, other platform may have other value, :-)
> 
> Then let's make it configurable or explore the actual device needs
> before allocating the buffer. The impact on memory consumption is way
> too big to hard-code this, specifically as this is per physical port IIUC.

You can add a run-time option and/or add a comment in the documentation.
It is just an example, so it must be simple to understand.


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