I had several similar concerns a few weeks back, please look for this email thread "Memory Pinning." On this mailing list. Bruce was very helpful. Ill forward the thread to you now. Hope it helps.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Wenji Wu <wenji at fnal.gov> wrote: > Hello, everybody, > > I am new on DPDK, and have several questions on DPDK. > > Is "Mbuf Pool? pinned to avoid being swapped out? I checked the source code, > and found there is API called ?rte_mem_lock_page?. But it seems this API is > never by called. Do I miss something? > > Thanks, > > wenji > > > >
