On 23/11/2015 15:33, Nissim Nisimov wrote: > Hi all, > > We are working on a system which requires allocating a big number of mem > zones. > > We are now reaching the max limit of MEMZONEs allowed (RTE_MAX_MEMZONE). > > I see today dpdk limit the above number to 2560. > Is there any specific reason for that? can I increase it in case needed. What > may be the side effects of such changes? > You can increase the number of memsegs, 256 is just a default value. The only side-effect I can think of, on systems that use more than the default number of memsegs, is slower EAL initialization and increased memseg lookup time.
Sergio > Thx > Nissim
