On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:29:05 -0700 Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> 5. It uses "malloc" instead of standard DPDK allocators. That's bad for me > because I don't want to use libc malloc in my code. Only DPDK allocators and > jemalloc. This was intentional because rte_malloc comes out of huge page area and that resource is a critical resource. It could use rte_malloc() but that makes it more likely to break when doing Policy Based routing or VRF. The BSD tree was used because it was space/time efficient lookup and available on both BSD and Linux.
