[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] KNI: use a memzone pool for KNI alloc/release

[Marc Sune]

Thomas,

v5: commit message arranged, all warnings from checkpatch.pl fixed except:

WARNING: Macros with flow control statements should be avoided
#104: FILE: lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.c:62:
+#define KNI_MEM_CHECK(cond) do { if (cond) goto kni_fail; } while (0)

a) This MACRO was there before, I just re-factored it to make it more 
readable.
b) There are 4 lines exceeding 80cols due to long quoted strings. I 
followed kernel convention not to split them in multiple lines.

Thanks and regards
Marc

On 21/10/14 10:29, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> 2014-10-18 00:51, Marc Sune:
>> 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.
>>
>> v2: Moved KNI fd opening to rte_kni_init(). Revised style.
>> v3: Adapted kni examples/tests to rte_kni_init().
>> v4: Improved example integration. Fixed kni_memzone_pool_alloc/release() bug.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Sune <marc.sune at bisdn.de>
> Thanks for the good work with Helin.
> Before applying this patch, I'd like another version explaining in the
> commit log why this change is needed.
> And please use to checkpatch.pl to check and remove whitespace errors.
>
> Thanks