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Configure Huge Pages for VPP

Contents of file: /etc/sysctl.d/80-vpp.conf

# Number of 2MB hugepages desired

#vm.nr_hugepages=1024

vm.nr_hugepages=4096

# Must be greater than or equal to (2 * vm.nr_hugepages).

#vm.max_map_count=3096

vm.max_map_count=9216

# All groups allowed to access hugepages

vm.hugetlb_shm_group=0

# Shared Memory Max must be greater or equal to the total size of hugepages.

# For 2MB pages, TotalHugepageSize = vm.nr_hugepages * 2 * 1024 * 1024

# If the existing kernel.shmmax setting (cat /sys/proc/kernel/shmmax)

# is greater than the calculated TotalHugepageSize then set this parameter

# to current shmmax value.

#kernel.shmmax=2147483648

kernel.shmmax=8589934592

Also use:

/etc/vpp/startup.conf

No changes were made to this file.

Contents of file: /etc/trex_cfg.yaml

### Config file generated by dpdk_setup_ports.py ###

- version: 2

interfaces: [‘3b:00.0’, ‘3b:00.1’]

port_info:

- ip: 10.10.2.2

default_gw: 10.10.2.1

- ip: 10.10.1.2

default_gw: 10.10.1.1

platform:

master_thread_id: 0

latency_thread_id: 1

dual_if:

- socket: 0

threads: [2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46]

This file was generated using:

cd /home/dell/trex-core/scripts

./dpdk_setup_ports.py -i

6.9 VPP Common Settings – Huge Pages

6.10 Trex Configuration File