[dpdk-dev] freeing memzone

2015-05-28 Thread Harish Patil
> >On 21/05/2015 17:59, Harish Patil wrote: >> Hello dpdk-dev, >> >> I understand that the reserved memzones cannot be freed, as mentioned in >> the DPDK specs. But I would like to know why? Is there any limitations? >There should be a few threads in the mailing list related to this topic. >Last th

[dpdk-dev] freeing memzone

2015-05-22 Thread Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
On 21/05/2015 17:59, Harish Patil wrote: > Hello dpdk-dev, > > I understand that the reserved memzones cannot be freed, as mentioned in > the DPDK specs. But I would like to know why? Is there any limitations? There should be a few threads in the mailing list related to this topic. Last that comes

[dpdk-dev] freeing memzone

2015-05-21 Thread Harish Patil
Hello dpdk-dev, I understand that the reserved memzones cannot be freed, as mentioned in the DPDK specs. But I would like to know why? Is there any limitations? If the memory is not freed/returned, then can it be reused for subsequent allocations without re-init (i.e. with same memzone name)? We u