[dpdk-dev] LPM6 next hop size
Matthew Hall
mhall at mhcomputing.net
Thu Sep 22 03:50:34 CEST 2016
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 04:42:05PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This was intentional because rte_malloc comes out of huge page area and that
> resource is a critical resource. It could use rte_malloc() but that makes it
> more likely to break when doing Policy Based routing or VRF.
Can we get more clarity on why PBR or VRF would break it? The performance and
fragmentation of the default glibc allocator are quite bad. So I am trying to
avoid it in my app for example.
Matthew.
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