[dpdk-users] l2fwd example program error : Cannot init mbuf pool

P D, Arun (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) arun.p_d at nokia.com
Fri Nov 27 05:04:08 CET 2015


Hello,

I have been trying to run the example program of DPDK namely l2fwd. I have initialized the EAL environments. When I execute the l2fwd program I get error as below.

The error is its failing to initialie mbuf pool.

[root at localhost app]# ./l2fwd -c 2 -n 2
EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 1 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 2 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 3 on socket 0
EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff848200000 (size = 0x200000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff847e00000 (size = 0x200000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff847a00000 (size = 0x200000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff847600000 (size = 0x200000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff847200000 (size = 0x200000)
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ff846c00000 (size = 0x400000)
EAL: Requesting 7 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
EAL: TSC frequency is ~3192615 KHz
EAL: Master lcore 1 is ready (tid=48625880;cpuset=[1])
EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7ff848400000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7ff848500000
PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e rte_em_pmd
EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10d3 rte_em_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7ff848504000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7ff848524000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7ff8485a4000
PMD: eth_em_dev_init(): port_id 1 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x10d3
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: Cannot init mbuf pool

Please let me know if I am missing anything.

Regards,
Arun Raj



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