[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/pdump: enforcing pdump to use sw mempool

[Olivier Matz]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 06:29:25PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 15/03/2019 16:27, Harman Kalra:
> > Since pdump uses SW rings to manage packets hence
> > pdump should use SW ring mempool for managing its
> > own copy of packets.
> 
> I'm not sure to understand the reasoning.
> Reshma, Olivier, Andrew, any opinion?
> 
> Let's take a decision for this very old patch.

>From what I understand, many mempools of packets are created, to
store the copy of dumped packets. I suppose that it may not be
possible to create as many mempools by using the "best" mbuf pool
(from rte_mbuf_best_mempool_ops()).

Using a "ring_mp_mc" as mempool ops should always be possible.
I think it would be safer to use "ring_mp_mc" instead of
CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS, because the latter could be
overriden on a specific platform.

Olivier