does that mean that on the same core, we can't do rte_eth_rx_burst in one thread (I assume this function allocates from mempool for storing mbufs everytime it receives a packet), while another thread calls rte_pktmbuf_alloc from the same mem_pool?
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>wrote: > Hello, > > 19/12/2013 11:57, ankit kumar : > > It was working fine but i am not sure that memory allocation & > > deallocation in rte_mempool library, is multi-thread safe or not. > > From http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__mempool_8h.html: > "the mempool implementation is not preemptable" > There is more explanations in this email: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-August/000402.html > > -- > Thomas >
