On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote: > In test application, the default size of allocated mempool is calculated > as following: > > (RTE_MAX_LCORE * (RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + max_kept_objects)) - 1 > > The objective is to ensure that all cores can fill their cache and keep > 'max_kept_objects' at the same time. As RTE_MAX_LCORE is 128 and > RTE_MEMPOOL_CACHE_MAX_SIZE is 512 in the default configuration, it can > produce very large mempools (170 MB). > > We can replace the number of core by a dynamic value, which drastically > reduces the amount of memory needed for this test (5 MB with 4 cores). > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>