[dpdk-dev] Cleanup of secondary proc fbarray files?

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed Aug 1 10:01:40 CEST 2018


On 31-Jul-18 5:36 PM, Eads, Gage wrote:
> As far as I can tell, DPDK does not destroy secondary process fbarray 
> files – i.e. those whose names end with “_<PID>”. With enough secondary 
> processes and memory usage per application, and after enough repeat 
> executions, these can take up a significant amount of space. Is the user 
> expected to clean these up themselves, or is this a bug in DPDK?
> 
> Perhaps this is a good candidate for including in rte_eal_cleanup()?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gage
> 

Good point, this was my omission. This should be done in eal_cleaup().

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Thanks,
Anatoly


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