[dpdk-users] mempools

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:13:41 -0800
Mike Davison <mike.davison.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at memory pools. It looks like they are a fixed size and cannot be
> changed. Correct?
> 
> Assuming my reading is correct, is there interest in adding
> dynamically-sized memory pools? I would envision these memory pools having
> fixed-sized elements, as they do today, but resizing the number of
> fixed-sized elements, within some limits, as needed. Good? Bad?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

Memzone's are fixed size regions
Mempool's are fixed size objects based on memzone's
For variable size objects, use rte_malloc