[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] test/test_mbuf: remove mempool global var

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Jun 20 09:35:07 CEST 2017


20/06/2017 06:14, santosh:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2017 02:07 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 
> > 08/06/2017 16:28, Santosh Shukla:
> >> Let test_mbuf alloc and free mempool.
> >>
> >> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
> > Why Cc stable?
> > Is it fixing something?
> >
> w/o this fix, application can't run more than once.
> Reason: Static allocation of resources and exiting w/o freeing so leak.
> 
> Patch makes app resource handling dynamic and Now user could run
> test more than once and app exits gracefully. thats why Cc: stable a need (IHMO).
> Thanks.

OK
So we need a Fixes: tag in order to be able to guess which
release it should be backported to.


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