[dpdk-dev] CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEM_MB fails in DPDK18.05

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 19-Feb-20 3:42 PM, Kamaraj P wrote:
> Hi Anatoly,
> Thanks for the suggestions. Yeah we have just changed in our application 
> to invoke mlockall() before rte_eal_init(). Looks like it does not help 
> either.
> 
>       if (mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE)) {
>           printf("Failed mlockall !! ******\n");
>       }
>      ret = rte_eal_init(argc, args);
> 
> Looks like still observing the struck issue when allocating virtual pages.
> 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: 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:2097152
> EAL: Creating 32 segment lists: n_segs:1024 socket_id:0 hugepage_sz:2097152
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0xd000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x10002e000 (size = 0xd000)
> EAL: Memseg list allocated: 0x800kB at socket 0
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x80000000 bytes
> 
> Could you please suggest if there is any other option which we need to 
> try it out.
Does this only happen with your application, or does it happen with DPDK 
example applications or test/testpmd apps?

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Thanks,
Anatoly