12/09/2013 09:52, Dmitry Vyal : > If I understand it correctly, the ring contains free buffers and > rte_ring_count() returns a number of entries inside a ring. So this > function actually calculates the number of free entries, not busy.
Yes, you're right. mempool's objects are free mbufs. So mempool_count is the number of free mbufs, and mempool_free_count is the number of free slots to store more free mbufs. I agree that the naming is confusing but I'm not sure we should change it. -- Thomas
