Linux zeros huge pages by default. There was a fix in later releases On Sep 5, 2017 8:24 PM, "王志克" <wangzh...@jd.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I observed that rte_eal_hugepage_init() will take quite long time if there > are lots of huge pages. Example I have 500 1G huge pages, and it takes > about 2 minutes. That is too long especially for application restart case. > > If the application only needs limited huge page while the host have lots > of huge pages, the algorithm is not so efficent. Example, we only need 1G > memory from each socket. > > What is the proposal from DPDK community? Any solution? > > Note I tried version dpdk 16.11. > > Br, > Wang Zhike >
