Re: [vpp-dev] physmem rework patch

2017-09-07 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
On 7 Sep 2017, at 14:46, Billy McFall > wrote: To test, do we need to change anything else with our setup, like remove 80-vpp.conf? yes, it should work even without that file. If I have HugePages_Total set to 8192 via grub, and 80-vpp.conf is

Re: [vpp-dev] physmem rework patch

2017-09-07 Thread Billy McFall
To test, do we need to change anything else with our setup, like remove 80-vpp.conf? If I have HugePages_Total set to 8192 via grub, and 80-vpp.conf is set to the default of 1024, my system should stay at 8192 (provided there is enough free hugepages), correct? Thanks, Billy On Thu, Sep 7, 2017

[vpp-dev] physmem rework patch

2017-09-07 Thread Damjan Marion (damarion)
Dear vpp-devers, As I mentioned on the last community call, there is patch which significantly changes the way how VPP is allocating wired memory, including the dpdk hugepages. Patch is available here and it is passing verify jobs: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/7701/ With this change, VPP is