[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ring: add function to free a ring

Olivier MATZ olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Tue Oct 13 16:01:53 CEST 2015


Hi Pablo,

On 10/02/2015 05:53 PM, Pablo de Lara wrote:
> From: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
> 
> When creating a ring, a memzone is created to allocate it in memory,
> but the ring could not be freed, as memzones could not be.
> 
> Since memzones can be freed now, then rings can be as well,
> taking into account if they were initialized using pre-allocated memory
> (in which case, memory should be freed externally) or using rte_memzone_reserve
> (with rte_ring_create), freeing the memory with rte_memzone_free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>



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