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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] app/procinfo: Fix memory
	leak by rte_service_init
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:59:47 +0100
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11/01/2018 20:47, Vipin Varghese:
> When procinfo is run multiple times against primary application, it
> consumes huge page memory by rte_service_init. Which is not released
> at exit of application.
> 
> Invoking rte_service_finalize to real memory and prevent memory leak.

I don't think it is correct to call rte_service_finalize in applications,
while rte_service_init is called in EAL.

Maybe we need a new function in EAL.