[dpdk-dev] Huge pages to be allocated based on number of mbufs

2016-03-17 Thread Zoltan Kiss
On 14/03/16 17:54, Saurabh Mishra wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to support virtio, vmxnet3, ixgbe, i40e, bxn2x and SR-IOV > on some of them with DPDK. > > We have seen that even if we give correct number of mbufs given the number > hugepages reserved, rte_eth_tx_queue_setup() may still fail

[dpdk-dev] Huge pages to be allocated based on number of mbufs

2016-03-14 Thread Saurabh Mishra
Hi, We are planning to support virtio, vmxnet3, ixgbe, i40e, bxn2x and SR-IOV on some of them with DPDK. We have seen that even if we give correct number of mbufs given the number hugepages reserved, rte_eth_tx_queue_setup() may still fail with no enough memory (I saw this on i40evf but worked