On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:10:35 +0000 Sarthak Ray <sarthak_ray at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am using dpdk-2.1.0 for a platform appliance, where I am facing issue with > mempool allocation. > > On the firstboot of the newly installed appliance, my dpdk application is not > coming up saying failure in mbuf allocation on socket 0. But once I reboot > the system, it comes up without any issues. How big is the huge page memory on the system? On initial boot, the free memory is usually contiguous after a lot of programs run it gets fragmented. You can configure grub command line to reserve huge pages before userspace starts; see kernel documentation Documentation/vm/hugepages.txt
