[lxc-users] Mounting huge pages on a conatiner

[Murthy, Krishna J]

> I use Huge Pages inside a container routinely, for Mysql. I had to change
> /etc/sysctl.conf inside the container.
> that lines I included are
> kernel.shmall = 4294967296
> kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
> basically you need to make huge pages available in the host first, and
> they will be available in the container

Ok. In this case we are allocating the shared memory. How do we make this memory 
visible for apps that expect it be mounted as hugetlbfs. 

root at vc0:~# df -lh
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        50G  7.6G   39G  17% /
none             16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm

root at vc0:~# cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
5

>> Hi,
>>
>> Are you trying to run DPDK in a container? You need to tweak a few things. I
>> will try to write up all the changes needed to get DPDK to work inside
>> containers, and send you shortly. In the meantime, it would help if you
>> specified what error you get.
>
>> Anjali
>>
>> From: Swetha Gurudu <swethagurudu at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: "lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org"
>> <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 5:22 AM
>> To: "lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org"
>> <lxc-users at lists.linuxcontainers.org>
>> Subject: [lxc-users] Mounting huge pages on a conatiner
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just started to learn and work on containers. I need to mount huge pages
>> in a container and when I try to mount I get permission denied error. Can
>> someone please help in this regard.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Swetha
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