[dpdk-users] Freeing up Mbuf

Anupam Kapoor anupam.kapoor at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 04:54:44 CET 2016


On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel <
krath at cloudsimple.com> wrote:

> In FreeBSD the user can actually specify the free routine for the mbuf
> when the transmit routine is called. Is this implemented in DPDK.


​currently, afaik, dpdk ​does not provide this functionality. basically,
there is no way to poll the tx-ring for consumed buffers. or to put it
another way, rte_eth_tx_burst doesn't synchronously transmit the packets.

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kind regards
anupam​


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