From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: "Walker, Benjamin" <benjamin.walker@intel.com>,
"Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rte_mempool_free
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 09:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573AC923.8070706@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463428590.2522.160.camel@intel.com>
Hello Benjamin,
On 05/16/2016 09:56 PM, Walker, Benjamin wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 16:57 +0000, Wiles, Keith wrote:
>>>
>>> There is no inverse of rte_mempool_create, so this patch adds one.
>>> The typical usage of rte_mempool_create is to create a pool at
>>> initialization time and only to free it upon program exit, so an
>>> rte_mempool_free function at first seems to be of little value.
>>> However, it is very useful as a sanity check for a clean shutdown
>>> when used in conjunction with tools like AddressSanitizer. Further,
>>> the call itself verifies that all elements have been returned to
>>> the pool or it fails.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
I already submitted a patch introducing a similar feature.
Please see:
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/12062/
It is part of a larger patchset:
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037464.html
Regards,
Olivier
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-16 16:42 [PATCH] Add rte_mempool_free Ben Walker
2016-05-16 16:57 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-05-16 19:56 ` Walker, Benjamin
2016-05-17 6:12 ` Simon Kågström
2016-05-17 7:32 ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
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