[dpdk-dev] mempool deleting and cache_size

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 20:15:18 +0100
Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss at linaro.org> 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.