Junguk Cho <jman...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, Aaron.
>
> Thank you for reply.
>
> You will need to use populate this option into other_config:dpdk-extra
> in the ovsdb.
>
>   ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch \
>       . other_config:dpdk-extra="--base-virtaddr=..."
>
> -> I tried to use "struct rte_memseg *m = rte_eal_get_physmem_layout()" 
> option based on
> (http://dpdk.org/doc/api/structrte__memseg.html).
> Always it returns different number. 
> How do I get virtual address value to use it as an input of "base-viraddr"?
>
> I don't know the base virtual address value you should use, however.
> -> Do you mean it will not help? 

I mean I don't know what value to use.

> Thanks,
> Junguk
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  Junguk Cho <jman...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I use ovs-dpdk (ovs-2.7, dpdk-16.11.1) with one application which talks to
>  > ovs by using ring device and "--proc-type=secondary" (secondary processes).
>  > It generally works well, but sometimes it shows this error.
>  >
>  > It seems it could not find correct memory mapping in the application.
>  >
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.988 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.988 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] EAL: WARNING: Address Space
>  > Layout Randomization (ASLR) is enabled in the kernel.
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.988 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] EAL:    This may cause
>  > issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.989 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] EAL: Could not mmap
>  > 17146314752 <(714)%20631-4752> bytes in /dev/zero at [0x7f662c800000], got
>  > [0x7f6506000000] - please use '--base-virtaddr' option
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.989 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] EAL: It is recommended to
>  > disable ASLR in the kernel and retry running both primary and secondary
>  > processes
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.990 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] PANIC in rte_eal_init():
>  > 2017-06-13 11:21:40.990 STDERR Thread-2 [INFO] Cannot init memory
>  >
>  > I tried to disable ASLR, but it did not work.
>  >
>  > Does anyone have a similar situation?
>  > Based on this page (https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/2284), this
>  > is known issue and it seemed we can avoid this with "--base-virtaddr"
>  > option.
>  > Does anyone know how to use this option in ovs-dpdk?
>
>  You will need to use populate this option into other_config:dpdk-extra
>  in the ovsdb.
>
>    ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch \
>        . other_config:dpdk-extra="--base-virtaddr=..."
>
>  I don't know the base virtual address value you should use, however.
>
>  -Aaron
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