Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] mempool: indicate the usages of multi memzones

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 05:29:59PM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> On 12/19/2017 6:38 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> > 
> > > That's true, I commented too fast :)
> > > And what about using mp->nb_mem_chunks instead? Would it do the job
> > > in your use-case?
> > 
> > It should work.  Let me check it out.
> 
> There is a slight problem with nb_mem_chunks.
> 
> It is getting incremented in the end of "rte_mempool_populate_phys",
> while the elements are getting populated before it in the call of
> mempool_add_elem.
> 
> I can use nb_mem_chunks are '0' check. However it can break in future if
> mempool_populate_phys changes.

Sorry, I'm not sure I'm getting what you say.

My question was about using mp->nb_mem_chunks instead of a new flag in the
dppa driver. Am I missing something?