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 exhausted, even though memzones from deallocated interfaces were > never used anymore (unless an interface with the same name was re-allocated). > As a result, the application was unable to allocate more KNI interfaces with > different names. > > This patch implements the KNI memzone pool in order to prevent memzone > exhaustion when allocating/deallocating KNI interfaces. It adds a new API > call, > rte_kni_init(max_kni_ifaces) that shall be called before any call to > rte_kni_alloc() if KNI is used. The memzones are pre-allocated with interface- > independent names so that they can be reused. > > Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marc.sune at bisdn.de>
Previously acked by Helin. Applied Thanks -- Thomas
