[dpdk-users] Failed to allocate tx pool

[Raghu Gangi]

Hi,

I am currently facing issue in brining up DPDK application. It is failing with the following message. rte_errno is set to 12 in this scenario. (Out of memory).

It would be great if you can kindly point me to what am I doing incorrectly.

I am using DPDK 2.2.0 version on ubuntu 16.04.

EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
EAL: PCI device 0000:82:00.0 on NUMA socket 1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fd1a7600000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fd1a7640000
PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): MAC: 2, PHY: 12, SFP+: 3
PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): port 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x10fb
EAL: PCI device 0000:82:00.1 on NUMA socket 1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fd1a7644000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fd1a7684000
PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): MAC: 2, PHY: 12, SFP+: 4
PMD: eth_ixgbe_dev_init(): port 1 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x10fb
RING: Cannot reserve memory
dpdk_if_init:256: failed to allocate tx pool

The DPDK bound NIC cards are on NUMA socket 1.

root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/dpdk-2.2.0# ./tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:82:00.0 '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=ixgbe
0000:82:00.1 '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=ixgbe

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:02:00.0 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eno1 drv=igb unused=igb_uio *Active*
0000:02:00.3 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eno2 drv=igb unused=igb_uio

Other network devices
=====================
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root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run# cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:82\:00.0/numa_node
1
root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run# cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:82\:00.1/numa_node
1


DPDK huge pages are allocated on the same NUMA node 1 as shown below:

root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run# cat /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
0
root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run# cat /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
128
root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run#

Output of CPU Layout tool:

root at rg2-14053:/home/adara/raghu_2/run# ../dpdk-2.2.0/tools/cpu_layout.py
============================================================
Core and Socket Information (as reported by '/proc/cpuinfo')
============================================================
cores =  [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
sockets =  [0, 1]

        Socket 0        Socket 1
        --------        --------
Core 0  [0, 20]         [10, 30]

Core 1  [1, 21]         [11, 31]

Core 2  [2, 22]         [12, 32]

Core 3  [3, 23]         [13, 33]

Core 4  [4, 24]         [14, 34]

Core 8  [5, 25]         [15, 35]

Core 9  [6, 26]         [16, 36]

Core 10 [7, 27]         [17, 37]

Core 11 [8, 28]         [18, 38]

Core 12 [9, 29]         [19, 39]

Thanks,
Raghu