[dpdk-users] no-hugepage option

2018-08-29 Thread Pradeep Fernando
Hi All, I saw this explanation for using -no-hugepage option. http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2016-November/050109.html >* When using --no-huge, the dpdk libraries (including mempool) allocate *>* its memory in standard memory. Just keep in mind the physical addresses *>* will be wrong, so

[dpdk-users] Question on dpdk memory allocation.

2018-08-29 Thread Pradeep Fernando
Hi all, My target software stack does not support hugetlbfs, but it supports huge-paged mmaps. I'm trying to port dpdk huge-page allocate logic to use mmap based allocations. Hence the below question. I use dpdk 16.11.1 ( slightly old i know :) ) I see that, there is 1. malloc based allocation