DPDK has two hugepage sizes:2MB hugepages and 1GB hugepages. I run the command below to use the 1GB hugepages: However, when I run the command cat /proc/meminfo: It still seems to use the 2MB hugepages. What should I do to use the 1GB hugepages? Answer The Hugepagesize field of /proc/meminfo is the default huge page size used by applications allocating
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Using DPDK Kernel NIC Interface in a virtualized environment
I’m going to develop a DPDK Linux application on a laptop, but the laptop’s hardware is not supported by DPDK. Furtunately, DPDK supports paravirtualized devices including QEMU’s virtio-net. So I’m trying to configure a QEMU guest for running the Kernel NIC Interface(KNI) on a virtio-net-pci device. The problem is that the KNI sample application doesn’t accept the virtio-net-pci driver. QEMU