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| author |   Mars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com> | 2016-07-20 18:01:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Mars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com> | 2016-08-04 01:25:07 -0400 |
| commit | 690954dec9cf852fb2830605e1e295ab58c0a2e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 04bc6e5f562fe4d5cdb2d9d57f888b724e2bc193 /docs/configguide/installation.rst | |
| parent | 5109fb49432be5bb0075b6b55e8b5304fa6172be (diff) | |
Hugepages: on the fly allocation.
If no hugepages are available, try to allocate HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION
amount of RAM for hugepages.
JIRA: VSPERF-290
Change-Id: I092b3831254579eeebbe45e85884828f9d749895
Signed-off-by: Mars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst index 5072dee0..1755ca6f 100755 --- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst +++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst @@ -190,3 +190,8 @@ You can review your hugepage amounts by executing the following command .. code:: bash cat /proc/meminfo | grep Huge + +If no hugepages are available vsperf will try to automatically allocate some. +Allocation is controlled by HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION configuration parameter in +``02_vswitch.conf`` file. Default is 2GB, resulting in either 2 1GB hugepages +or 1024 2MB hugepages. |