diff --git a/test/nvmf/host/perf.sh b/test/nvmf/host/perf.sh
index 1722d05314..1d1b6eb7fa 100755
--- a/test/nvmf/host/perf.sh
+++ b/test/nvmf/host/perf.sh
@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ fi
 timing_enter perf
 timing_enter start_nvmf_tgt
 
-# Start the NVMe-oF target with preallocated memory because we will need to run perf.c
-# as a secondary process later, and secondary process memory allocation is broken with
-# the IOMMU.
-# todo: remove this when the proper fixes are merged into DPDK.
-$NVMF_APP -m 0xF -s 4096 &
+$NVMF_APP -m 0xF &
 nvmfpid=$!
 
 trap "process_shm --id $NVMF_APP_SHM_ID; killprocess $nvmfpid;  nvmftestfini $1; exit 1" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT