> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2023 17.41 > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:22:37 +0100 > Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Or are you saying that if they want to use dumpcap, they must > choose > > > a thread safe pool type for their application (regardless if the > > > application is single-threaded or not)? > > > > > > There is no command line of EAL nature in dumpcap. > > > This is intentional. > > > QED: overriding default pool type is not going to be a possible > > > > The preferred mbuf pool type can configured in the primary process by > EAL params. If so configured, it is stored in a memzone named > "mbuf_user_pool_ops". > > And if it is set there, the secondary process will also use it as its > preferred mbuf pool type. > > If user decides to use a thread unsafe mempool, wouldn't it break in > every PMD as well.
Yes, except if the application only uses one thread for packet processing. Then thread safety is not necessary.
