[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: add function to release internal resources

Van Haaren, Harry harry.van.haaren at intel.com
Mon Jan 29 12:10:44 CET 2018


> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2018 10:56 AM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Varghese, Vipin <vipin.varghese at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: add function to release internal resources
> 
> 29/01/2018 11:45, Harry van Haaren:
> > --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
> > +Finalizing and Cleanup
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +During the initialization of EAL resources such as hugepage backed memory
> can be
> > +allocated by core components.  The memory allocated during
> ``rte_eal_init()``
> > +can be released by calling the ``rte_eal_finalize()`` function. Refer to
> the
> > +API documentation for details.
> 
> About naming, what is better between
> 	rte_eal_finalize() and
> 	rte_eal_cleanup() ?
> I tend to think that "cleanup" is more descriptive.

Sure cleanup() is fine for me, I'll spin a v3 with the function name change.


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