On 18-Jul-19 10:34 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
When using --no-huge mode, dynamic allocation is not supported.
Because of this limitation, the option --legacy-mem is implied
and -m may be needed to specify the amount of memory to allocate.
Otherwise the default amount MEMSIZE_IF_NO_HUGE_PAGE will be allocated.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
---
  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 512d5088e..4a76929ea 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -1551,6 +1551,10 @@ eal_check_common_options(struct internal_config 
*internal_cfg)
                        "be specified at the same time\n");
                return -1;
        }
+       if (internal_cfg->no_hugetlbfs && internal_cfg->memory == 0) {
+               RTE_LOG(NOTICE, EAL, "Option --"OPT_NO_HUGE" uses legacy mode, "
+                       "option -m would override default memory allocation\n");

I think this is too technical and misleading. I don't think user cares about legacy vs dynamic mode here. I would rather print out something more informative, like, say, something along those lines:

"Option --no-huge was specified in command-line arguments. This mode uses static memory layout and will allocate %dMB of memory by default. Option '-m' can be used to increase allocated memory amount."

where %d is the amount of memory we're preallocating.

+       }
        if (internal_cfg->no_hugetlbfs && internal_cfg->force_sockets == 1) {
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Option --"OPT_SOCKET_MEM" cannot "
                        "be specified together with --"OPT_NO_HUGE"\n");



--
Thanks,
Anatoly

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