[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] kni: Add documentation for the mempool capacity

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon May 23 19:10:36 CEST 2016


On 5/23/2016 6:00 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/21/2016 8:25 AM, Alex Wang wrote:
>> From: Alex Wang <alex at awakenetworks.com>
>>
>> Function like 'rte_kni_rx_burst()' keeps
>> allocating 'MAX_MBUF_BURST_NUM' mbufs to
>> kni fifo queue unless the queue's capacity
>> ('KNI_FIFO_COUNT_MAX') is reached.  So, if
>> the mempool is under-provisioned, user may
>> run into "Out of Memory" logs from KNI code.
>> This commit documents the need to provision
>> mempool capacity of more than
>> "2 x KNI_FIFO_COUNT_MAX" for each KNI interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alex at awakenetworks.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 

Hi Alex,

This is detail but I just recognized patch subject after tag starts with
uppercase. Would you mind sending another patch? You can keep my ack
with it.

Thanks,
ferruh


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