Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(SPK) SPK
Known Affected Versions:
1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.8, 1.8.0, 1.8.2, 1.9, 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2
Opened: Nov 30, 2023 Severity: 3-Major
TMM fails to start with error logs, as shown below: dpdk: Error: rte_pktmbuf_pool_create_by_ops() failed with rte error Cannot allocate memory. dpdk: Error: **** Fatal xnet DPDK Driver Configuration Error **** Allocating mbuf pool failed. dpdk: Error: **** Fatal xnet DPDK Driver Configuration Error **** Failed to initialize DPDK run-time environment (xnet error 1). xnet_lib [pci:0000:d8:02.6]: Error: Failed to initialize driver
TMM pod will end up in a Crashloop.
This can happen when host assigns hugepages to the TMM container that are not physically contiguous.
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