eal: warn on legacy memory allocation requirement

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / common / eal_common_options.c

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 7b182b8..05cae5f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -1591,6 +1591,11 @@ eal_check_common_options(struct internal_config *internal_cfg)
                                "with --"OPT_MATCH_ALLOCATIONS"\n");
                return -1;
        }
+       if (internal_cfg->legacy_mem && internal_cfg->memory == 0) {
+               RTE_LOG(NOTICE, EAL, "Static memory layout is selected, "
+                       "amount of reserved memory can be adjusted with "
+                       "-m or --"OPT_SOCKET_MEM"\n");
+       }
 
        return 0;
 }