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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">To clarify, the log message when my application called <span>rte_mempool_create() to create the "node_pool", and the call succeeded.</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Thanks,</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Don Trotter</span></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 01:54:08 PM CDT, Don Trotter <djtrotter@yahoo.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb7466567yiv9409598186"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydpb7466567yiv9409598186yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I have recently started using DPDK. I am working on a project on OcteonTX2 with DPDK 11.23.01. I am seeing this message from EAL during EAL init, but everything is working.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <span>EAL: eal_memalloc_alloc_seg_bulk(): couldn't find suitable memseg_list</span></div><div><br></div><div>The system has 96GB of memory. These 2 pools get created and everything works fine.</div><div><br></div><div>mempool <mbuf_pool>@0x13fed3e00</div><div> flags=10</div><div> socket_id=0</div><div> pool=0x1140300000</div><div> iova=0x13fed3e00</div><div> nb_mem_chunks=1</div><div> size=65535</div><div> populated_size=65535</div><div> header_size=128</div><div> elt_size=10200</div><div> trailer_size=40</div><div> total_obj_size=10368</div><div> private_data_size=128</div><div> ops_index=0</div><div> ops_name: <cn9k_mempool_ops></div><div> avg bytes/object=10368.558602</div><div><br></div><div>mempool <node_pool>@0x1575d8180</div><div> flags=10</div><div> socket_id=-1</div><div> pool=0x19ffffd00</div><div> iova=0x1575d8180</div><div> nb_mem_chunks=2</div><div> size=134217727</div><div> populated_size=134217727</div><div> header_size=128</div><div> elt_size=256</div><div> trailer_size=0</div><div> total_obj_size=384</div><div> private_data_size=0</div><div> ops_index=3</div><div> ops_name: <ring_mp_mc></div><div> avg bytes/object=384.000094</div><div><br></div><div>You read that right. I’ve got 128*1024*1024 256 byte buffers created for data.</div><div><br></div><div>I also see there is still heap left, although pretty low after.</div><div><br></div><div>Heap id:0</div><div> Heap name:socket_0</div><div> Heap_size:55834574848,</div><div> Free_size:2403644544,</div><div> Alloc_size:53430930304,</div><div> Greatest_free_size:536870016,</div><div> Alloc_count:293,</div><div> Free_count:5,</div><div><br></div><div>Linux free stats.</div><div><br></div><div>tmp# free -h -w</div><div> total used free shared buffers cache available</div><div>Mem: 95Gi 88Gi 6.5Gi 444Mi 0B 470Mi 599Mi</div><div>Swap: 0B 0B 0B</div><div><br></div><div><b>Is there anything wrong with that EAL log? Is there a lurking problem?</b></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Don Trotter</div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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