[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] app/testpmd: support malloc and free tracking log

[Somnath Kotur]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:11 PM Iremonger, Bernard
<bernard.iremonger at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Xueming Li
> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 9:04 AM
> > To: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh
> > <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Stephen Hemminger
> > <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Asaf Penso <asafp at mellanox.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] app/testpmd: support malloc and free
> > tracking log
> >
> > New CLI commands to manipulate malloc tracking log:
> >
> > dump_malloc start <n>: start malloc tracking with number of buffers
> > dump_malloc dump <n>:  dump mmalloc tracking log with detail level
> > dump_malloc stop:      stop malloc tracking
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
>
> Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>

Sorry if this has been answered already, but just wanted to know if
there is any reason this is not yet merged in ...could be a useful
tool to debug leaks in PMDs
Is there any other /better way to identify memory leaks now which is
why this is no longer under consideration ?

Thanks
som