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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Looks like rte_mempool_free_count() and
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12/09/2013 09:52, Dmitry Vyal :
> If I understand it correctly, the ring contains free buffers and
> rte_ring_count() returns a number of entries inside a ring. So this
> function actually calculates the number of free entries, not busy.

Yes, you're right. mempool's objects are free mbufs.
So mempool_count is the number of free mbufs,
and mempool_free_count is the number of free slots to store more free mbufs.
I agree that the naming is confusing but I'm not sure we should change it.

-- 
Thomas