> -----Original Message----- > From: users [mailto:users-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of ??? > Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 11:25 AM > To: us...@dpdk.org; dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-users] long initialization of rte_eal_hugepage_init > > 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?
You can mount hugetlbfs with "size" option + use "--socket-mem" option in DPDK to restrict the memory to be used. Thanks, Jianfeng > > Note I tried version dpdk 16.11. > > Br, > Wang Zhike
