On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:22:37 +0100 Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Or are you saying that if they want to use dumpcap, they must choose > > a thread safe pool type for their application (regardless if the > > application is single-threaded or not)? > > > > There is no command line of EAL nature in dumpcap. > > This is intentional. > > QED: overriding default pool type is not going to be a possible > > The preferred mbuf pool type can configured in the primary process by EAL > params. If so configured, it is stored in a memzone named > "mbuf_user_pool_ops". > And if it is set there, the secondary process will also use it as its > preferred mbuf pool type. If user decides to use a thread unsafe mempool, wouldn't it break in every PMD as well.
