> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:04 AM
> To: Jiany Wu <wujianyue...@gmail.com>
> Cc: users@dpdk.org; Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>;
> Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; olivier.m...@6wind.com;
> dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com; step...@networkplumber.org; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnam...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] can we reserve hugepage and not release
> 
> 18/09/2021 04:37, Jiany Wu:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I met a scenario that, need to start and stop the container many times
> > for the hugepage. But after several times container start and stop,
> > the hugepage is not able to reserve.
> > Hugepage size is 2MB, and HW only support 2MB, can't support 1GB.
> > Is there anyway to make sure the hugepage is still kept continuous?
> > Thanks indeed.
> 
> Interesting question.
> I think we need to address it in the DPDK documentation.
> 
> Anatoly, Stephen, Bruce, any advice please?
> 

Hi,

>From description, I don't quite understand what's the issue here. Is the 
>problem about "contiguousness of memory", or is it about inability to reserve 
>more hugepages? How are hugepages assigned to your container? Have you tried 
>using --in-memory mode?

Thanks,
Anatoly

Reply via email to