[dpdk-dev] free a memzone

[Mahdi Dashtbozorgi <mdasht@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have two processes, which uses DPDK multi-process feature to communicate.
Master process captures packets from NIC and put them to a ring buffer,
which is shared between master and slave process.
The slave process looks up the shared ring buffer using rte_ring_lookup
function and reads the packets.
The slave process needs a memory pool, too. Therefore, it creates a mempool
using rte_mempool_create. But If the slave process crashes during its
processing and runs again, rte_mempool_create function fails and tells that
there is a memory zone with that name.
If I use rte_mempool_lookup in this case, the memory pool is not a clean
memory pool. Because the previous run of slave process did not terminate
gracefully and did not return all the objects to the pool.
Is there any function to free an existing memory zone, which I call before
rte_mempool_create to ensure that previous memory pool does not exists
anymore?

Best Regards,
Mahdi.