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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mempool: don't leak ring on failure
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:01:51 +0200
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On 06/25/2014 09:46 AM, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> Your patch moves the creation of the ring after the call to
> rte_memzone_reserve(), so now it tries to create the memory
> for the object pool before the ring. The problem disappears
> because the object pool is usually much bigger than the ring,
> so once the first allocation is done, the second is unlikely
> to fail.
>
> I think this explanation could be added in the commit log.
>
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Sorry, I didn't see that Konstantin and Bruce already answered to
this.