Hi guys, Is there any suggestion to free the previously allocated memzone? I really need help in this issue. Any help is appreciated.
Best Regards, Mahdi. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Mahdi Dashtbozorgi <mdasht at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two processes, which uses DPDK multi-process feature to communicate. > Master process captures packets from NIC and put them to a ring buffer, > which is shared between master and slave process. > The slave process looks up the shared ring buffer using rte_ring_lookup > function and reads the packets. > The slave process needs a memory pool, too. Therefore, it creates a > mempool using rte_mempool_create. But If the slave process crashes during > its processing and runs again, rte_mempool_create function fails and tells > that there is a memory zone with that name. > If I use rte_mempool_lookup in this case, the memory pool is not a clean > memory pool. Because the previous run of slave process did not terminate > gracefully and did not return all the objects to the pool. > Is there any function to free an existing memory zone, which I call before > rte_mempool_create to ensure that previous memory pool does not exists > anymore? > > Best Regards, > Mahdi. >
