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From: Dmitry Vyal <dmitryvyal-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: How to free a ring?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:07:35 +0400
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On 09/11/2013 11:46 AM, AndyChen wrote:
> Dpdk hasn't API to free ring/memzone/mempool, what's the scene you 
> must free the ring?
>
Well, I'm writing a packet defragmenting code. I have a data structure 
consisting of a rte_hash, a rte_ring and an array allocated with 
rte_zmalloc. All these besides the ring can be freed. So looks like I 
can't destruct my object after allocating. Strictly speaking, I don't 
have to. The need shouldn't arise in normal situation. I just considered 
writing allocating/deallocating function pairs and processing all 
allocation errors to be a good practice.

Isn't it a bit strange to have rte_hash_free() and not have 
rte_ring_free()? What's the reason for this?

Best wishes,
Dmitry