[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: add function to release internal resources

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Jan 29 11:55:58 CET 2018


29/01/2018 11:45, Harry van Haaren:
> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
> +Finalizing and Cleanup
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +During the initialization of EAL resources such as hugepage backed memory can be
> +allocated by core components.  The memory allocated during ``rte_eal_init()``
> +can be released by calling the ``rte_eal_finalize()`` function. Refer to the
> +API documentation for details.

About naming, what is better between
	rte_eal_finalize() and
	rte_eal_cleanup() ?
I tend to think that "cleanup" is more descriptive.


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