From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
To: Nissim Nisimov <nissimn@radware.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: max MEMZONEs allowed
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:44:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56542357.4090901@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94AA676E9B9A384A844E7692F3CAD906C5548CD7@ILMB1.corp.radware.com>
On 23/11/2015 15:33, Nissim Nisimov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are working on a system which requires allocating a big number of mem zones.
>
> We are now reaching the max limit of MEMZONEs allowed (RTE_MAX_MEMZONE).
>
> I see today dpdk limit the above number to 2560.
> Is there any specific reason for that? can I increase it in case needed. What may be the side effects of such changes?
>
You can increase the number of memsegs, 256 is just a default value.
The only side-effect I can think of, on systems that use more than the
default number of memsegs, is slower EAL initialization and increased
memseg lookup time.
Sergio
> Thx
> Nissim
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