Thank you for your response, I still can not run the 2 process together. if I add --no-pci to one process it can replace white and black lists right?
Thanks, keren On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles at intel.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Keren Hochman <keren.hochman at lightcyber.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I need to run 2 process that uses dpdk on the same machine. One uses dpdk > > drivers, and the other just read from a pcap file. If I disable > hugepages > > in the second process rte_mempool_create fails. What is the correct way > to > > handle this? > > If you look at the two scripts in Pktgen pktgen-master.sh and > pktgen-slave.sh these two scripts setup two instances of pktgen on the same > machine. Plus you can read the README.md file. > > http://dpdk.org/browse/apps/pktgen-dpdk/refs/ > > You have to make sure you have enough memory (huge pages) allocated for > both instances to run. > > Then use ?file-prefix XX to give each instance a different prefix for the > huge page files in /dev/hugepages if that is the location of the files on > your system. I would remove any files in that directory to free up the > memory. > > Use the ?socket-mem to allocate the correct amount of memory for each > instances this way DPDK does not consume all the pages for a given instance. > > Make sure you blacklist the ports you do not want on the first instance > using -b option and then blacklist the ports from the first instance while > allowing the other ports to be used on the second one. > > That should do it for most cases. > > > > > Thanks, Keren > > Regards, > Keith > >