[dpdk-users] WARNING! Base virtual address hint not respected!

[Kyle Larose]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM Cliff Burdick <shaklee3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm updating to 18.11 from 17.03, and I noticed there a several new
> warnings printing on startup in my primary process:
>
...
> EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x64002f000 != 0x680000000) not
> respected!
> EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
> EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0xe80030000 != 0xec0000000) not
> respected!
> EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
> EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x16c0031000 != 0x1700000000) not
> respected!
...
>
> It appears by searching the mailing list that this problem is not very
> common since it's fairly new. Does anyone know what can cause this? I have
> ASLR disabled.

4K pages vs huge-pages? It looks like the left-hand addresses are
4K-aligned, while the right-hand ones are not.