From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: vhost-switch example: huge memory need and CRC off-loading issue
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:56:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1801553.GZ2Pizxj8G@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C5AD1F.9020902@siemens.com>
2015-08-08 09:17, Jan Kiszka:
> On 2015-08-08 02:39, Ouyang, Changchun wrote:
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jan Kiszka
> >> - MAX_QUEUES of 512 causes pretty high memory need for the application
> >> (something between 1 and 2G) - is that really needed? I'm now running
> >> with 32, and I'm able to get away with 256M. Can we tune this
> >> default?
> >
> > Don't think we need change default just because your platform is 32,
> > Well, my platform is 128, other platform may have other value, :-)
>
> Then let's make it configurable or explore the actual device needs
> before allocating the buffer. The impact on memory consumption is way
> too big to hard-code this, specifically as this is per physical port IIUC.
You can add a run-time option and/or add a comment in the documentation.
It is just an example, so it must be simple to understand.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-09 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-07 17:31 vhost-switch example: huge memory need and CRC off-loading issue Jan Kiszka
2015-08-08 0:39 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2015-08-08 7:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2015-08-09 8:56 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-08-10 1:10 ` Ouyang, Changchun
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