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Looking for fixed-sized objects in somewhat variable-sized pool.

Perhaps use rte_malloc_socket to allocate from a specific heap and add a
bit of functionality above dpdk to ensure objects are fixed-sized. Perhaps.


>
> Memzone's are fixed size regions
> Mempool's are fixed size objects based on memzone's
> For variable size objects, use rte_malloc
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