Applying the following comfiguration on AWS instance:
set vpp settings interface eth1 driver dpdk set vpp settings buffers page-size '1G' set vpp settings memory main-heap-page-size '1G' set vpp settings statseg page-size '1G' set vpp settings statseg size '1G'
VPP fails to start with the following error present in the system journal:
VyOS-for-Smoke-Tests systemd[1]: Starting vector packet processing engine... VyOS-for-Smoke-Tests vpp[5789]: vlib_physmem_shared_map_create: clib_pmalloc_create_shared_arena: unsupported page size (1048576KB) VyOS-for-Smoke-Tests vpp[5789]: vlib_buffer_main_init: failed to allocate buffer pool(s) VyOS-for-Smoke-Tests systemd[1]: vpp.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. VyOS-for-Smoke-Tests systemd[1]: Failed to start vector packet processing engine.