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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] mempool deleting and cache_size
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On 16/04/2015 10:03, 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@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).
>
> Sergio
Forgot to say, suggestions/ideas are more than welcome.

Sergio