Dear DPDK Users,

I have been reading the pktgen-3.0.02 source codes with dpdk-16.04.


In the pktgen.c, function pktgen_send_pkts(), line 1098, it calls function 
wr_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk_noreset().  Then it calls the function 
rte_mempool_get_bulk() which calls the function __mempool_get_bulk().


Since in the function rte_pktmbuf_pool_create(), the "flags" is set to zero in 
default, this leads to that when calling __mempool_get_bulk(), the input 
parameter"is_mc==1". Hence the function __mempool_get_bulk() will execute the 
line 961-992 except that when "ret" is less that 0.


My question is why at line 992, this has to return 0? In the line 941, the 
comment says that  ">=0: Success; number of objects supplied." I am confused by 
this comment, since in line 985-990, we can see that the input parameter 
"obj_table" is supplied by new values and the number of the new values is "n". 
Does this means that we need to "return n;" instead of "return 0;"?


Am I missing something here? Thank you so much for your help.


All the best,

Xiaoban

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