[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] vmxnet3: Avoid memory leak in vmxnet3_dev_rx_queue_setup.

nickcooper-zhangtonghao nic at opencloud.tech
Wed Jan 18 03:41:48 CET 2017



> On Jan 18, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Yong Wang <yongwang at vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> Any downside with free/reallocation now that memzone can be freed?  Allocation with max ring size should work but is kind of wasteful in terms of memory usage and I assume this type of ring size change should not be a frequent operation.


Not free/realloc them anymore. I guess it is necessary to use the
allocation with max ring size. The seg fault really bother us.
and the app (e.g. ovs) may change it frequently when tuning performance.


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