Hi, 'memzone <RG_MP_log_history> already exists' is not an error for the secondary DPDK process.
DPDK EAL initialization creates a mempool for log history. This mempool creation includes creating a ring based on the memzone named RG_MP_log_history. For the secondary DPDK process, if the mempool for log history creation fails because the memzone RG_MP_log_history exits, it looks up the exited mempool and reuse it. Please refer to the implementation of rte_eal_common_log_init() function. From the logs, it seems your secondary DPDK process has initialized successfully. int rte_eal_common_log_init(FILE *default_log) { STAILQ_INIT(&log_history); /* reserve RTE_LOG_HISTORY*2 elements, so we can dump and * keep logging during this time */ log_history_mp = rte_mempool_create(LOG_HISTORY_MP_NAME, RTE_LOG_HISTORY*2, LOG_ELT_SIZE, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, SOCKET_ID_ANY, 0); if ((log_history_mp == NULL) && ((log_history_mp = rte_mempool_lookup(LOG_HISTORY_MP_NAME)) == NULL)){ RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s(): cannot create log_history mempool\n", __func__); return -1; } default_log_stream = default_log; rte_openlog_stream(default_log); return 0; } -----Original Message----- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of zimeiw Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 7:23 AM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] rte_memzone: memzone_reserve_aligned_thread_unsafe failed when running two process at the same time. hi, Running primary process, it is successful. $ sudo ./simple_mp -c 1 -n 1 --socket-mem=64 --proc-type=primary EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0 EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0 EAL: Support maximum 64 logical core(s) by configuration. EAL: Detected 2 lcore(s) EAL: Setting up memory... EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x26000000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffd1200000 (size = 0x26000000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x2200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffcee00000 (size = 0x2200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffcea00000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1a00000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffcce00000 (size = 0x1a00000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x2200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffcaa00000 (size = 0x2200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffca600000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffca200000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffc9e00000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffc9a00000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffc9600000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fffc9200000 (size = 0x200000) EAL: Requesting 32 pages of size 2MB from socket 0 EAL: TSC frequency is ~2793683 KHz EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=f7fe4800) EAL: PCI device 0000:02:01.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:100f rte_em_pmd EAL: 0000:02:01.0 not managed by UIO driver, skipping EAL: PCI device 0000:02:06.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:100f rte_em_pmd EAL: 0000:02:06.0 not managed by UIO driver, skipping proc primary APP: Finished Process Init. simple_mp > Running secondary process, it is faied for memzone <RG_MP_log_history> already exists. $ sudo ./simple_mp -c 1 -n 1 --proc-type=secondary --socket-mem=1 EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0 EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0 EAL: Support maximum 64 logical core(s) by configuration. EAL: Detected 2 lcore(s) EAL: Setting up memory... EAL: Analysing 358 files EAL: Mapped segment 0 of size 0x4000000 EAL: memzone_reserve_aligned_thread_unsafe(): memzone <RG_MP_log_history> already exists RING: Cannot reserve memory EAL: TSC frequency is ~2793681 KHz EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=f7fe4800) EAL: PCI device 0000:02:01.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:100f rte_em_pmd EAL: Cannot find resource for device EAL: PCI device 0000:02:06.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 8086:100f rte_em_pmd EAL: Cannot find resource for device proc secandary APP: Finished Process Init. simple_mp >