[dpdk-dev] Memory Pinning.

2014-07-01 Thread Alex Markuze
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Richardson, Bruce < bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alex Markuze > > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 3:01 AM > > To: dev at dpdk.org > >

[dpdk-dev] Memory Pinning.

2014-06-30 Thread Richardson, Bruce
> -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alex Markuze > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 3:01 AM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Memory Pinning. > > Hi, Guys. > I have several newbie questions about the DPDK design I was

[dpdk-dev] Memory Pinning.

2014-06-30 Thread Alex Markuze
Hi, Guys. I have several newbie questions about the DPDK design I was hoping some one could answer. Both in the RX and TX flow, the Buffer Memory must be pinned and not swappable. In RDMA, memory is explicitly registered and made pinned (to the limit defined @ /etc/security/limits.conf) .With regu