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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Random mbuf corruption
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:01:55 +0200
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Hi,

On 06/24/2014 12:48 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> Sounds like it might be time to add in some poisoning options to the mbuf
> allocator.

Such option already exists: CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MBUF_DEBUG and
RTE_LIBRTE_MEMPOOL_DEBUG will enable some runtime checks, at least
double free and buffer overflows.

Olivier