[dpdk-dev] CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEM_MB fails in DPDK18.05

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 17-Feb-20 9:57 AM, Kamaraj P wrote:
> Hi Anatoly,
> Thanks for the clarifications.
> 
> Currently we are migrating to the new DPDK 18.11 ( from 17.05).  Here is 
> our configuration:
> =======================================================================
> We have configured the "--legacy-mem" option and changed the 
> CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEM_MB to 2048 (and we are passing 2MB huge page 188 and 
> no 1G hugepages in the bootargs).
> Our application deployment as 2G RAM
> =======================================================================
> We are observing the hang issue, with above configuration.
> Please see the below logs:
> EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
> EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
> EAL: Detected 1 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
> EAL: open shared lib /usr/lib64/librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2.1
> EAL: open shared lib /usr/lib64/librte_pmd_e1000.so.1.1
> EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
> EAL: Module /sys/module/vfio_pci not found! error 2 (No such file or 
> directory)
> EAL: VFIO PCI modules not loaded
> EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> EAL: Module /sys/module/vfio not found! error 2 (No such file or directory)
> EAL: VFIO modules not loaded, skipping VFIO support...
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x2e000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x100000000 (size = 0x2e000)
> EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
> EAL: Setting maximum number of open files to 4096
> EAL: Detected memory type: socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:1073741824
> EAL: Detected memory type: socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:2097152
> EAL: Creating 1 segment lists: n_segs:1 socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:1073741824
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x10002e000 (size = 0x1000)
> EAL: Memseg list allocated: 0x100000kB at socket 0
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x40000000 bytes
> <<< --- struck here ---> >>>>
> 
> 
> Is there any other dpdk options thro which we can resolve the above 
> issue ? Any thoughts ?
> Like passing the *--socket-limit* and *--m *parameter etc during the EAL 
> Init (could help ???).
> Please suggest us.
> 

It sounds like it hangs in eal_get_virtual_area() - we've had a similar 
issue before, not sure if the fix was backported to 18.11. Is this patch 
present in your code?

http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/51943/

If not, it would be of great help if you could find the exact spot where 
the hang happens.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly