[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test/mempool: decrease size of requested mempool

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-07-09 12:18, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> > In test application, the default size of allocated mempool is calculated
> > as following:
> > 
> >   (RTE_MAX_LCORE * (RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + max_kept_objects)) - 1
> > 
> > The objective is to ensure that all cores can fill their cache and keep
> > 'max_kept_objects' at the same time. As RTE_MAX_LCORE is 128 and
> > RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE is 512 in the default configuration, it can
> > produce very large mempools (170 MB).
> > 
> > We can replace the number of core by a dynamic value, which drastically
> > reduces the amount of memory needed for this test (5 MB with 4 cores).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks