[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: change max hugepage sizes to 4
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Mon Aug 12 11:42:05 CEST 2019
On 07-Aug-19 2:28 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> HI Thomas,
>
>>>> DPDK currently is supporting maximum 3 hugepage, sizes whereas
>>>> system can support more than this e.g.
>>>> 64K, 2M, 32M and 1G.
>>>
>>> You can mention ARM platform here, and that this issue starts with
>>> kernel 5.2 (and I would try to mention this in the title as well).
>>> This is better than an annotation that will be lost.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Having these four hugepage sizes available to use by DPDK, which is
>>>> valid in case of '--in-memory' EAL option or using 4 separate mount
>>>> points for each hugepage size;
>>>> hugepage_info_init() API reports an error.
>>>
>>> Can you describe what is the impact from a user point of view rather
>>> than mentioning this internal function?
>>
>> Yes please, we need to understand how much it is critical.
>> Should we Cc stable at dpdk.org for backport?
>> Should it be merged at the last minute in 19.08?
>>
>
> VPP usages in-memory option. So, VPP on ARM with kernel 5.2 wont' work without this patch.
>
Off-topic, but it's nice to see real-world usage for this option!
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Thanks,
Anatoly
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