>Introduce a new function rte_mempool_create_empty()
>that allocates a mempool that is not populated.
>
>The functions rte_mempool_create() and rte_mempool_xmem_create()
>now make use of it, making their code much easier to read.
>Currently, they are the only users of rte_mempool_create_empty()
>but the function will be made public in next commits.
>
>Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
>+/* create an empty mempool */
>+static struct rte_mempool *
>+rte_mempool_create_empty(const char *name, unsigned n, unsigned elt_size,
>+ unsigned cache_size, unsigned private_data_size,
>+ int socket_id, unsigned flags)
> {
When two processes need to use the same mempool, do we have a race condition
with one doing a rte_mempool_create_empty() and the other process tries to use
it when it finds that mempool before being fully initialized by the first
process?
Regards,
Keith
