[dpdk-dev] Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed

Eduard Gibert Renart edugibert at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 23:07:54 CET 2014


I just rebooted the vm and It worked right away so I guess is that the hugepages was not big enough I was reserving 128 MB.

Thanks,
Eduard Gibert Renart

> On oct 29, 2014, at 5:49 PM, De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eduard,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Eduard Gibert
>> Renart
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 9:30 PM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was trying to run testpmd application in interactive mode
>> ($RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd) from the ./tools/setup.sh script with a 0x3
>> mask and I get the following error:
>> 
>> Interactive-mode selected
>> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
>>  Cause: Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed
>> 
>> I get a similar error when I try to run l3fwd.
>> 
>> Any idea why this is happening ?
> 
> Could you show how many hugepages do you have? i.e. can you show the full output of the app?
> 
> Pablo
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eduard Gibert Renart



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