Re: [ovs-dev] OVS 2.9 Mempool Issue

2018-01-29 Thread Stokes, Ian
Hi Jan/Pradeep, Thanks for flagging this issue, I hadn't considered it before. I agree that this needs to be investigated further. If it's of use I have reverted the per port mempool patches manually for testing with the head of master so that both approaches can be checked against these type

Re: [ovs-dev] OVS 2.9 Mempool Issue

2018-01-29 Thread Jan Scheurich
Hi Pradeep, Yes, this is for sure a bug in the current OVS mempool handling (and possibly in many other DPDK applications). In the past it was perhaps not so critical because shared mempools rarely got released, but with per port mempools it becomes a real threat. And as you say, we do not