On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:15:08PM +0200, Marco Varlese wrote: > Hi, > I'm seeing an error reported by the DPDK EAL when allocating the MBUF pools. > > The error is: > "MBUF: error setting mempool handler" > > I have a multi-node NUMA system and I get the exact same error when trying to > allocate the memory from the different nodes. > > The bootstrap parameters I use to reserve huge-pages are: > "default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=32" > > If I check the available huge-pages in my systems they look Ok (see below). > fromm:~/:[130]# cat /proc/meminfo <snip> > > Any idea / help would be much appreciated. > > > Thanks, > Marco > Hi Marco,
in recent releases the mempools are now based on different mempool drivers, rather than just being a single mempool library. So if this is a shared library build, you may need to pass in "-d /path/to/driver" parameter to make sure the default mempool driver is picked up by the EAL. Regards, /Bruce
