The following assumes we use env_dpdk underneath.
rte_mempools use rte_rings internally. When creating
a mempool with capacity N, we internally try to create
a ring with least N+1 size. That's because rte_rings
need one extra empty element to differentiate between
the full and empty state. To make it worse, the ring
size has to be a power of two, so rte_mempools use
`rte_align32pow2(mp->size + 1)` for the size calculation.
And rte_ring memory has to be physically contiguous.
Allocating a mempool of capacity 262144 requires at
least (2 * 262144) * sizeof(void *) = 4MB memory. This
made us require at least 2 physically contiguous
2MB hugepages.
Change-Id: Iabc984a29a60c0b2cf5309a78cd1bcce28ac7b3d
Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.gerrithub.io/408925
Tested-by: SPDK Automated Test System <sys_sgsw@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verkamp <daniel.verkamp@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
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