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From: santosh <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] test/test_mbuf: remove mempool global var
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:44:15 +0530
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On Tuesday 20 June 2017 02:07 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

> 08/06/2017 16:28, Santosh Shukla:
>> Let test_mbuf alloc and free mempool.
>>
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
> Why Cc stable?
> Is it fixing something?
>
w/o this fix, application can't run more than once.
Reason: Static allocation of resources and exiting w/o freeing so leak.

Patch makes app resource handling dynamic and Now user could run
test more than once and app exits gracefully. thats why Cc: stable a need (IHMO).
Thanks.