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

[Cliff Burdick]

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: Detected 48 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
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!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x1f00032000 != 0x1f40000000) not
respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x2740033000 != 0x2780000000) not
respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x2f80034000 != 0x2fc0000000) not
respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x37c0035000 != 0x3800000000) not
respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
EAL: WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x4000036000 != 0x4040000000) not
respected!
EAL:    This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes

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.