[dpdk-users] rte_pktmbuf_free does not reset headroom

[Girard, Guillaume]

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2020 19:29
> To: Girard, Guillaume <guillaume.girard at intel.com>
> Cc: users at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] rte_pktmbuf_free does not reset headroom
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:40:47 +0000
> "Girard, Guillaume" <guillaume.girard at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > From my experiments prepending data to an mbuf, rte_pktmbuf_free() does
> not reset the headroom. Is that intended?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guillaume
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> 
> Free doesn't need to do anything to the mbuf. After free the state of the mbuf is
> indeterminate (ie. it can be what ever rte_mbuf code wants).
> 
> The headroom is reset in rte_pktmbuf_reset() which is called by
> rte_pktmbuf_alloc().

Thank you, that makes sense. In that case, I was fetching mbufs directly from the pool, which is why I saw that behavior. I will change my code.

Best regards,
Guillaume

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