2016-05-18 13:04, Olivier Matz: > This series is a rework of mempool. For those who don't want to read > all the cover letter, here is a sumary: > > - it is not possible to allocate large mempools if there is not enough > contiguous memory, this series solves this issue > - introduce new APIs with less arguments: "create, populate, obj_init" > - allow to free a mempool > - split code in smaller functions, will ease the introduction of ext_handler > - remove test-pmd anonymous mempool creation > - remove most of dom0-specific mempool code > - opens the door for a eal_memory rework: we probably don't need large > contiguous memory area anymore, working with pages would work. > > This breaks the ABI as it was indicated in the deprecation for 16.04. > The API stays almost the same, no modification is needed in examples app > or in test-pmd. Only kni and mellanox drivers are slightly modified.
Applied with a small change you sent me to fix mlx build in the middle of the patchset and update the removed Xen files in MAINTAINERS file. Thanks for the big rework!
