[dpdk-users] DPDK 17.11.2 - PMD: net_mlx5: mempool 0x7fc988c33e40: not virtually contiguous

Anshu Boonapalli anshu.boonapalli at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 18:37:10 CEST 2018


The system i am working on has ~1TB of RAM.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 9:28 PM Singh, Satish 1. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) <
satish.1.singh at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> According to your configuration, yiu are allocation 80K*2MB = 160GB of
> memory, do you have that much Ram in your system?
>
> Regards,
> SATISH SINGH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users <users-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Anshu Boonapalli
> Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:33 PM
> To: users at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-users] DPDK 17.11.2 - PMD: net_mlx5: mempool
> 0x7fc988c33e40: not virtually contiguous
>
> hi,
>
> I am facing this failure intermittently during the rte_eal_init call, when
> using relatively large number of hugepages (~80k+ of 2MB hugepages).
>
> The mempool for this scenario is allocated using rte_mempool_create() and
> all associated documentation/source seems to indicate the pool returned
> should be virtually contiguous.
>
> Have any of you experienced this failure and figured out a resolution?
>
> Thanks,
> -Anshu
>


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