[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] Memory leak when adding/removing vhost_user ports

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:08:12PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 02:24:57PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > while checking for dpdk 16.07 what backports are accepted in the meantime so I
> > can drop them I found this particular discussion has been silently forgotten by
> > all of us.
> 
> Not really. As later I found that my patch was actually wrong (besides
> the issue you already found). I will revisit this issue thoroughly when
> get time, hopefully, next week.

Here it is: vhost_destroy() will be invoked when:

- QEMU quits gracefully 
- QEMU terminates unexpectedly

Meaning, there should be no memory leak. I think we are fine here (I
maybe wrong though, feeling a bit dizzy now :(

	--yliu