Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-06-02 Thread Manoj Iyer
Subject: RE: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Manoj, can you try VPP-20.05 instead of VPP-19.04? I suspect the DPDK-19.02 used with VPP-19.04 is too old for your platform and skip 2MB hugepages. DPDK 19.02 seems to support up to 3

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-06-02 Thread Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io
j Iyer > Sent: mardi 2 juin 2020 05:57 > To: Damjan Marion ; Benoit Ganne (bganne) > > Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io; Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij > Sudan > Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: > Cannot get hugepage information. > > Ben, > > So

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-06-01 Thread Manoj Iyer
; Damjan Marion Cc: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io ; Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Could you share the output of: ~# strace vpp -c /usr/share/vpp/vpp.conf With DPDK enabled (ie with your targeted config which

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-28 Thread Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io
anne) ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io; Rodney > Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan > Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: > Cannot get hugepage information. > > Any more thoughts on this failure ? > > Thanks > Manoj Iyer >

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-27 Thread Manoj Iyer
: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. $ lscpu Architecture: aarch64 Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Off-line CPU(s) list: 1-7 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Can you capture: lscpu grep . /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-*/* grep . /sys/devices/system/node/node*/hugepages/hugepages-*/* — Damjan > On 27 May 2020, at

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Damjan Marion via lists.fd.io
ult. > From: Damjan Marion > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 5:44 PM > To: bga...@cisco.com > Cc: Manoj Iyer ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > ; Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan > > Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot > get hugepage information

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. VPP passes --in-memory so there should be no hugepage files created in the fliesystem. > On 26 May 2020, at 18:42, Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io > wrote: > > Hi Manoj, > > The issue

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Damjan Marion via lists.fd.io
VPP passes --in-memory so there should be no hugepage files created in the fliesystem. > On 26 May 2020, at 18:42, Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io > wrote: > > Hi Manoj, > > The issue is because of DPDK initialization. In the working conf, you disable > DPDK plugin so DPDK is not

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
PM To: Shmuel H ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io ; bga...@cisco.com ; Manoj Iyer Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. I also tried the nuclear options. Set the kernel command line to == 1G hugepages

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
, 2020 3:32 PM To: Shmuel H ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io ; bga...@cisco.com Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Shmuel, When I run that command I got the following: $ sudo dpdk-testpmd EAL: Detected 1

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
...@cisco.com Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Strange. I usually unmount and then mount the hugepages mount point before using it, just to be sure. Maybe the two different mount points

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Shmuel H.
...@tkos.co.il | tel:+972-523-746-435 | http://tkos.co.il On 26 May 2020 20:57:30 "Manoj Iyer" wrote: From: Benoit Ganne (bganne) Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:31 PM To: Manoj Iyer ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: RE: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - err

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:03 PM To: Manoj Iyer ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. > That is exactly the problem now. I need to use D

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io
> That is exactly the problem now. I need to use DPDK, and how do I get the > plugin to work? Do we know the root cause of the issue why the plugin > fails? Any pointers on this would be really appreciated. As mentioned in my 1st email, can you check whether /mnt/huge is full of dpdk-created

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
From: Benoit Ganne (bganne) Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 12:31 PM To: Manoj Iyer ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: RE: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. > I remo

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io
> I removed the plugin and it starts the service! [...] > At this point, I think I should be able to use the VPP console to set up > the interfaces etc. Is there any other gotcha I need to be aware of ? Which interfaces are you going to use to rx/tx packets? VPP natively supports some Intel,

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Manoj Iyer
(bganne) via lists.fd.io Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 11:42 AM To: Manoj Iyer ; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Cc: Rodney Schmidt ; Kshitij Sudan Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information. Hi Manoj, The issue is because of DPDK initialization

Re: [vpp-dev] VPP fails to start - error message EAL: FATAL: Cannot get hugepage information.

2020-05-26 Thread Benoit Ganne (bganne) via lists.fd.io
Hi Manoj, The issue is because of DPDK initialization. In the working conf, you disable DPDK plugin so DPDK is not initialized and everything is fine. Can you check whether /mnt/huge is full of dpdk-created staled files? I saw this happen from time to time. The fix is simple, just remove the