[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: rename functions with confusing names
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Jun 29 17:55:27 CEST 2016
2016-06-29 14:55, Bruce Richardson:
> The mempool_count and mempool_free_count behaved contrary to what their
> names suggested. The free_count function actually returned the number of
> elements that were allocated from the pool, not the number unallocated as
> the name implied.
>
> Fix this by introducing two new functions to replace the old ones,
> * rte_mempool_unallocated_count to replace rte_mempool_count
> * rte_mempool_allocated_count to replace rte_mempool_free_count
What about available/used instead of unallocated/allocated?
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