[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: Allow combining -m and --no-huge

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Mon Jun 15 16:04:22 CEST 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Simon Kagstrom <
simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net> wrote:

> Needed to run as non-root but with higher memory allocations, and
> removes a constraint on no-huge mode being limited to 64M. A usage
> example is if running with file input with the pcap PMD, which can be
> done as non-root after this patch via e.g.,
>
>     ./test-dpdk --no-huge -m 1024 -l 0,1 -n3 --vdev
> 'eth_pcap0,rx_pcap=/tmp/eth-rx.pcap,tx_pcap=/tmp/eth-tx.pcap'
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Faltstrom <johan.faltstrom at netinsight.net>
> ---
> v2:
>    * Remove unneeded parentheses and merge lines
>
>    * Patch prefix now eal:
>
>    * Add example and more description (from David Marchand)
>
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> index 8fcb1ab..1f459ac 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
> @@ -850,9 +850,8 @@ eal_check_common_options(struct internal_config
> *internal_cfg)
>                         "be specified at the same time\n");
>                 return -1;
>         }
> -       if (internal_cfg->no_hugetlbfs &&
> -                       (mem_parsed || internal_cfg->force_sockets == 1)) {
> -               RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Options -m or --"OPT_SOCKET_MEM" cannot
> "
> +       if (internal_cfg->no_hugetlbfs && internal_cfg->force_sockets ==
> 1) {
> +               RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Option --"OPT_SOCKET_MEM" cannot "
>                         "be specified together with --"OPT_NO_HUGE"\n");
>                 return -1;
>         }
> --
> 1.9.1
>

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>

-- 
David Marchand


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