Re: [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch fails to allocate memory pool for DPDK port

2019-04-16 Thread Ian Stokes
On 4/3/2019 5:15 PM, Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) wrote: Sorry I just accidentally sent out the last mail too early... Hi Ian, To answer your questions, I just reproduced the issue on my system: What commands have you used to configure the hugepage memory on your

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch fails to allocate memory pool for DPDK port

2019-04-03 Thread Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss
Sorry I just accidentally sent out the last mail too early... Hi Ian, To answer your questions, I just reproduced the issue on my system: What commands have you used to configure the hugepage memory on your system? - I have added the following kernel parameters: hugepagesz=2M

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch fails to allocate memory pool for DPDK port

2019-04-03 Thread Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss
Hi Ian, To answer your questions, I just reproduced the issue on my system: What commands have you used to configure the hugepage memory on your system? - I have added the following kernel parameters: hugepagesz=2M hugepages=512 and then rebooted the system. In other scenarios I allocated the

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch fails to allocate memory pool for DPDK port

2019-04-03 Thread Ian Stokes
On 4/3/2019 1:04 AM, Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss wrote: Hello, I’m trying to attach a DPDK port with an mtu_size of 9216 to a bridge. For this purpose, I have allocated 512 HugePages of size 2MB for OVS (1GB in total). Hi, I couldn't reproduce the behavior

[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch fails to allocate memory pool for DPDK port

2019-04-02 Thread Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss
Hello, I’m trying to attach a DPDK port with an mtu_size of 9216 to a bridge. For this purpose, I have allocated 512 HugePages of size 2MB for OVS (1GB in total). Doing so will constantly fail, two workarounds to get it working were either to decrease the MTU size to 1500 or to increase the