On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:24:52AM +0000, 王志克 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. >
There is a EAL option --socket-mem which can be used to limit the memory aquired from each socket. > What is the proposal from DPDK community? Any solution? > > Note I tried version dpdk 16.11. > > Br, > Wang Zhike -Pavan
