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authorMars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>2016-07-20 18:01:52 -0400
committerMars Toktonaliev <mars.toktonaliev@nokia.com>2016-08-04 01:25:07 -0400
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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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@@ -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.