On 16/04/15 11:26, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > On 16/04/2015 10:22, Marc Sune wrote: >> >> >> On 16/04/15 11:03, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: >>> On 15/04/2015 20:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:15:18 +0100 >>>> Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss at linaro.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have two questions regarding mempools: >>>>> >>>>> - the first is trivial: how do you delete them? Can you? I can't >>>>> see a >>>>> function to do that, and none of the examples are doing such >>>>> thing. When >>>>> exactly it get deleted? >>>> You can't delete them. They live in hugepage area and are persistent. >>>> Correctly written code looks for them by name and reuses existing pool >>>> if it is big enough. >>>> >>> FYI, I'm looking into such functionality and also delete/destroy >>> mempools (although still no plan on implementation). >>> >> >> Also the memzones behind, or will be "lost/leaked" after a mempool >> destruction? >> >> Marc >> >>> Sergio >> > Sorry, my bad. > I did mean to say 'delete/destroy memzones' :)
Good, That would make the KNI memzone pool not necessary anymore: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/6890/ If your patch gets accepted I will adapt that. Marc > > Sergio
