Thank you Raja,thanks a lot for your help On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan < r...@juniper.net> wrote:
> Yes, dpdk-vrouter needs its own huge pages. The DPDK library auto-detects > the huge pages from the hugetlbfs mount point, so it needs to be setup. > > > > Raja > > > > *From: *Users <users-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org> on behalf of kevin > parrikar <kevin.parker...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 8:43 PM > *To: *dev <d...@lists.opencontrail.org>, "<users@lists.opencontrail.org>" < > users@lists.opencontrail.org> > *Subject: *[Users] Hugepages and dpdk-vrouter > > > > Hey All, > > For DPDK nodes,currently i have configured my computes to use 40G of 1G > pages and able to spin up 3 vms each with 10G,and they are all using huge > pages.I have 10G of un- allocated huge pages. > > my question: > Does "dpdk-vrouter" need hugepages for itself to > work? > > > > If it needs hugepages then do i have to specify the > 1G mount point somewhere in the configuration of dpdk-vrouter or can it > auto detect 1G pages and use it. > > Motive behind the question is some where i read hugepages are needed for > dpdk for packet buffering but in my current set up i haven't specified > hugepages any where in the config for dpdk-vrouter right now only vms are > using huge pages. > > > Thanks for any help. > > > Regards, > > Kevin >
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