[dpdk-dev] Number of memory channels per processor socket?
Abhishek Verma
abhishekv.verma at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 11:54:50 CEST 2015
Hi,
I am new to DPDK and i tried searching the archives in case this had been
discussed but couldnt find any references and hence this email:
What is the significance of " -n NUM: Number of memory channels per
processor socket" which is passed as an EAL option? I have a virtual
machine (VM) spawned using VirtualBox and i am trying to use DPDK to get
faster access to packets there. I did lscpu, but that didnt give me
anything interesting that i could use here:
abhishekV at VirtualBox:~/dpdk/dpdk-2.0.0/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app$ sudo
lscpu
[sudo] password for abhishekV:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Stepping: 9
CPU MHz: 2594.017
BogoMIPS: 5188.03
L1d cache: 32K
L1d cache: 32K
L2d cache: 6144K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
abhishekV at VirtualBox:~/dpdk/dpdk-2.0.0/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app$
I understand that i have two cores and hence should use -c 1 (since i have
cores 0 and 1). However, i dont understand what to give as the "-n" option.
Is it always 4?
Thanks, Abhishek
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