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I have a problem with transmitting jumbo packets with DPDK. The code snippets below show how I create a mempool and then how I send the packet. (This is highly simplified - I haven't shown how I allocate the mbuf or assign the packet data). My problem is that this works fine for small mbufs (BUF_SIZE == 2048), but I need to send jumbo packets (9000 octets). My understanding is that I need to set the mbuf size to accommodate the largest packet I need to send. But as soon as I increase BUF_SIZE beyond 2048 (say to 4096) the pointer returned by rte_pktmbuf_prepend() is invalid - I get a segmentation fault at the line shown below. I don't know how to fix this.

Am I setting the parameters to rte_mempool_create() incorrectly?

Is the mempool too large?

Any advice would be appreciated.

I am using dpdk-stable-18.11.9.

//================
// Initialisation
//================
#define BUF_SIZE    4096
#define MBUF_SIZE   (BUF_SIZE + sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) +
RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM)
#define NB_MBUF     8192
// (I do check the return value of this call)
rte_mempool_create(buf,
                   NB_MBUF/2,
                   MBUF_SIZE,
                   sizeof(struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private),
                   rte_pktmbuf_pool_init,
                   NULL,
                   rte_pktmbuf_init,
                   NULL,
//=============
// Send packet
//=============
// Allocate mbuf from mempool and assign to p_mbuf, assign packet data then
set headers ...
struct udp_hdr*  p_udp_hdr = (struct udp_hdr*)rte_pktmbuf_prepend(p_mbuf,
(uint16_t)sizeof(struct udp_hdr));
struct ipv4_hdr* p_ip_hdr  = (struct ipv4_hdr*)rte_pktmbuf_prepend(p_mbuf,
(uint16_t)sizeof(struct ipv4_hdr));
if (p_ip_hdr != NULL)
    p_ip_hdr->version_ihl = 0x45;    <=== SEGMENTATION FAULT HERE
                This is now fixed. I had set data_room_size in the call to rte_pktmbuf_pool_create() to RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE, which was too small.
– DavidA
                Aug 10, 2020 at 14:33
To transmit packets in DPDK with large buffer one needs to
Option-1: update the port-conf to chaining of smaller mbuf buffer for larger pkt size
static struct rte_eth_conf port_conf = {
        .txmode = {
                .offloads = DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_MULTI_SEGS,
Option 2: increase the size of mbuf payload area while creating int the pool.
mp = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(buf, NB_MBUF, 32, 0, [desired payload size], socket);
        
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