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authorMaryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>2016-08-05 10:37:27 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@172.30.200.206>2016-08-05 10:37:27 +0000
commit896f0fe61346916a560c01c0eae638894d653d7e (patch)
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Merge "Hugepages: on the fly allocation."
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@@ -201,3 +201,8 @@ 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.