[dpdk-dev] Question about DPDK hugepage fd change

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 06-Feb-19 1:57 PM, Iain Barker wrote:
>> Can you use 1G hugepages instead of 2M pages or a combo of the two, not sure how dpdk handles having both in the system?
> 
> Unfortunately, no. Some of our customer deployments are tenancies on KVM hosts and low-end appliances, which are not configurable by the end user to enable 1G huge pages.
> 
> I think we are going to have to revert this patch set from our build, as I don't see any other alternative for using DPDK 18 whilst remaining compliant to the POSIX/glibc requirements.
> 

Yep, apologies for that. I think a new command-line flag to disable this 
functionality should solve the issue, but we already have enough of those...

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Thanks,
Anatoly