From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Dmitry Vyal <dmitryvyal-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Looks like rte_mempool_free_count() and rte_mempool_count() are swapped
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 14:32:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401021432.22215.thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523172C3.2040309-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
12/09/2013 09:52, Dmitry Vyal :
> If I understand it correctly, the ring contains free buffers and
> rte_ring_count() returns a number of entries inside a ring. So this
> function actually calculates the number of free entries, not busy.
Yes, you're right. mempool's objects are free mbufs.
So mempool_count is the number of free mbufs,
and mempool_free_count is the number of free slots to store more free mbufs.
I agree that the naming is confusing but I'm not sure we should change it.
--
Thomas
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2013-09-12 7:52 Looks like rte_mempool_free_count() and rte_mempool_count() are swapped Dmitry Vyal
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2014-01-02 13:32 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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