[dpdk-dev] [v3 PATCH] usertools: show an error message if unable to reserve requested hugepages

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Feb 5 19:24:10 CET 2021


08/01/2021 10:06, Sarosh Arif:
> Sometimes the system is unable to reserve the requested hugepages because
> enough space is not available in the RAM. In that case, currently the
> script displays no error message hence the user can be under the delusion
> that the hugepages requested are all successfully reserved. This patch
> displays an error message if the pages reserved are different from the
> requested pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sarosh Arif <sarosh.arif at emumba.com>
> ---
> v2:
> use a global variable SHOW_HUGEPAGES to remove linter warnings
> v3:
> only print an error message if unable to reserve hugepages.
> ---
> +    if get_hugepages(path) != pages:
> +        sys.exit("Unable to reserve required pages.")

Replaced double quotes by simple ones.

Applied, thanks.





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