[dpdk-dev] mempool deleting and cache_size

Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Thu Apr 16 11:03:18 CEST 2015


On 15/04/2015 20:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
>
FYI, I'm looking into such functionality and also delete/destroy 
mempools (although still no plan on implementation).

Sergio


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