[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] KNI: use a memzone pool for KNI alloc/release

2014-10-21 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-21 12:46, Marc Sune: > The previous implementation of rte_kni_alloc() was allocating memzones with a > name composed of a fixed string and the interface name. When an application > was > allocating and deallocating multiple interfaces with different names, memzones > were quickly

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] KNI: use a memzone pool for KNI alloc/release

2014-10-21 Thread Marc Sune
The previous implementation of rte_kni_alloc() was allocating memzones with a name composed of a fixed string and the interface name. When an application was allocating and deallocating multiple interfaces with different names, memzones were quickly exhausted, even though memzones from deallocated