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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="UNCONFIRMED - PMD does not work with –no-huge EAL command line parameter"
   href="https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631">1631</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>PMD does not work with –no-huge EAL command line parameter
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>DPDK
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>UNCONFIRMED
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>ethdev
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>dev@dpdk.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>nandinipersad361@gmail.com
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          <th>Target Milestone</th>
          <td>---
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          <pre class="bz_comment_text">Currently, the DPDK does not store any information about memory allocated by
malloc() (for example, NUMA node, physical address), hence PMDs do not work
when the --no-huge command line parameter is supplied to EAL. This happens when
using non-IOMMU based UIO drivers (i.e. igb_uio or uio_pci_generic) or when
IOVA mode is explicitly set to use physical addresses (via the --iova-mode=pa
EAL parameter).

Implication:
Sending and receiving data with PMD will not work. Unit tests checking
--no-huge operation will fail if there is a device bound to the PMD
(eal_flags_n_opt_autotest, eal_flags_no_huge_autotest,
eal_flags_vdev_opt_autotest, eal_flags_misc_autotest).

Resolution/Workaround:
Use huge page memory or use VFIO to map devices.

Affected Environment/Platform:
Systems running the DPDK on Linux

Driver/Module:
Poll Mode Driver (PMD).
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