From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx.bisdn.de (mx.bisdn.de [185.27.182.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673C17EB0 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.16.250.156] (unknown [172.16.250.156]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.bisdn.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1BE44A3B46 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <552F7F46.7050000@bisdn.de> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:22:14 +0200 From: Marc Sune User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@dpdk.org References: <552EB8C6.5050906@linaro.org> <20150415122419.767e4048@urahara> <552F7AD6.3070003@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <552F7AD6.3070003@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] mempool deleting and cache_size X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:22:16 -0000 On 16/04/15 11:03, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote: > On 15/04/2015 20:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:15:18 +0100 >> Zoltan Kiss 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). > Also the memzones behind, or will be "lost/leaked" after a mempool destruction? Marc > Sergio