Bug 439
Summary: | memif pmd is allocating from Node 0, even after passing Node 1 in eal args | ||
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Product: | DPDK | Reporter: | Vipin Varghese (vipin.varghese) |
Component: | ethdev | Assignee: | Marko Kovacevic (marko.kovacevic) |
Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | major | CC: | ajit.khaparde, john.mcnamara |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 20.02 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux |
Description
Vipin Varghese
2020-04-04 16:11:36 CEST
running the same with tap interface does not use node-0 memory # numastat -p l2fwd Per-node process memory usage (in MBs) for PID 65681 (l2fwd) Node 0 Node 1 Total --------------- --------------- --------------- Huge 0.00 1024.00 1024.00 Heap 0.07 0.01 0.08 Stack 0.03 0.01 0.04 Private 3.33 2.99 6.32 ---------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- Total 3.43 1027.01 1030.43 Looks like memif PMD requires more than 1GB of huge pages to work. Unable to find the details in documentation. Marko, John, can we update the documentation? Thanks Yes, you can please send up a patch. Thanks |