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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: linhaifeng <haifeng.lin@huawei.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] support free hugepages
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:17:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030031737.GB3286@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414561659-7408-1-git-send-email-haifeng.lin@huawei.com>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 01:47:39PM +0800, linhaifeng wrote:
> +int
> +rte_eal_hugepage_free(void)
> +{
> +	struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl = g_hugepage_table.hugepg_tbl;
> +	unsigned i;
> +	unsigned nr_hugefiles = g_hugepage_table.nr_hugefiles;
> +	int ret = 0;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_hugefiles; i++) {
> +		ret = unlink(hugepg_tbl[i].filepath);
> +		if (ret != 0) {
> +			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Failed to unlink %s", hugepg_tbl[i].filepath);
> +			return ret;

I would say, don't exit just because one couldn't be freed. Free everything 
you can but exit with an error so people can know what happened.

Thanks for the patch, good idea!

Matthew.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29  5:47 linhaifeng
2014-10-29  6:14 ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29  6:40   ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-29  8:04     ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29  8:15       ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-30  3:17 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2014-10-30 15:32 ` Thomas Monjalon

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